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Geologic Unit: Dragonian
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dragonian age
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Paradox basin
Publication:

Wood, H.E., II, Chaney, R.W., and and others, 1941, Nomenclature and correlation of the North American continental Tertiary: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 52, no. 1, 48 p.


Summary:

Pg. 9, pl. 1. Dragonian age. Provincial time term, based on Dragon local fauna in North Horn formation, Dragon Canyon, Emery County, Utah, principally from western half of sec. 8, T. 19 S., R. 6 E. Covers interval between Paleocene Puercan (older) and Torrejonian ages. [In lower part of Paleocene; = DRACOLAENUS faunal zone.] Definition of 18 provincial time terms, based on mammal-bearing units, for North American continental Tertiary. [For sequence see under Puercan.]

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