Antelope Valley Limestone

The Antelope Valley Limestone is a limestone geologic formation of the Pogonip Group in southern Nevada.

Antelope Valley Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician Period
Antelope Valley Limestone (Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada)
Type	Geologic formation
Unit of	Pogonip Group
Underlies	Copenhagen Formation
Overlies	Ninemile Formation
Thickness	1,100 feet (340 m)
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Location
Region	Nevada
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Antelope Valley (Nevada)

It is found in the Antelope Valley region of Eureka County and Nye County.

It preserves fossils dating back to the Whiterock Stage of the Ordovician period.

Funeralaspis, the oldest named odontopleurine trilobite, is known from the Dapingian sediments of this formation.^[1]

See also

• United States portal
• Paleontology portal

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nevada
• Paleontology in Nevada

References

1. Adrain, J. M.; Pérez-Peris, F. (2023). "Funeralaspis n. gen.: a new odontopleurine trilobite from the early Middle Ordovician (Dapingian) of Death Valley, eastern California, USA, and the classification of Ordovician odontopleurines". Zootaxa. 5336 (4): 509–529. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5336.4.3. PMID 38221079.

Further reading

• Charles W. Merriam (1963). "Paleozoic rocks of Antelope Valley, Eureka and Nye Counties, Nevada" (PDF). Geological Survey Professional Paper. doi:10.3133/PP423. ISSN 0096-0446. Wikidata Q61049030.
• Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.