Holly Creek Formation

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Holly Creek Formation
Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous
Type Formation
Location
Region Arkansas
Country United States
Type section
Named forLittle Holly Creek and Holly Creek, Howard County, Arkansas
Named byHarold C. Vanderpool [1]

The Holly Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period which belong to the Trinity Group. [2]

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Flora

Fauna

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References

  1. ↑ Vanderpool, H.C. (1928). "A preliminary study of the Trinity group in southwestern Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma, and northern Texas". Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 12: 1079–1080.
  2. ↑ Suarez, Celina A.; Frederickson, Joseph; Cifelli, Richard L.; Pittman, Jeffrey G.; Nydam, Randall L.; Hunt-Foster, ReBecca K.; Morgan, Kirsty (2021-10-21). "A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA". PeerJ. 9: e12242. doi: 10.7717/peerj.12242 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   8542373 . PMID   34721970.
  3. ↑ AXSMITH, BRIAN J.; KRINGS, MICHAEL; WASELKOV, KATHERINE (February 2004). <0402:cpcftc>2.0.co;2 "Conifer Pollen Cones from the Cretaceous of Arkansas: Implications for Diversity and Reproduction in the Cheirolepidiaceae" . Journal of Paleontology. 78 (2): 402–409. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0402:cpcftc>2.0.co;2. ISSN   0022-3360. S2CID   129310148.


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