Named for town of Meeteetse on the Greybull River, Park Co, WY in the Bighorn basin. No type locality designated. Overlies Gebo formation (new). Underlies Ilo formation (new). Consists of argillaceous sandstone and sandy shale. Generally poorly sorted and not well indurated. Mica, some beds with fresh biotite, common throughout. Silicified wood. Measured section on Shoshone River 1,110 ft thick described where a basal 750 ft thick buff to gray, argillaceous sandstone is overlain in sequence by coal and brown and gray carbonaceous shale separated into two parts by two thick beds (60 ft and 210 ft thick respectively) of olive argillaceous sandstone. Nineteen species of plant fossils identified--most of Judith River age. Assigned to the Late Cretaceous. Stratigraphic chart and sections.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).

Unnamed tongue of Meeteetse recognized in the southeastern Wind River basin, WY. Shown as early Maestrichtian age. Correlation with other units of the same Late Cretaceous age in south-central WY shown on Table 1.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).