Name applied to rocks unconformably above the Upper Mississippian Pitkin Limestone and unconformably below the Middle Pennsylvanian McCully Formation (new) in Muskogee and Cherokee Cos, OK, Chautauqua platform, and east in OK to Sequoyah and western Adair Cos, Arkoma basin. Facies changes occur eastward in Adair Co, where nomenclature applied to equivalent rocks are called Hale, and Brentwood and Woolsey Members of Bloyd Shale. Names Hale and Bloyd were applied in earlier reports to rocks named Sausbee in this report. Type area designated on both sides of Arkansas River above Webbers Falls Reservoir, Muskogee Co. Type sections located in sec 34, T13N, R20E. Source of name Sausbee not stated. Divided into the Braggs Member at base composed of interbedded limestone and shale, and some sandstone 12.8 to 52.3 m thick, and the Brewer Bend Limestone Member at top composed of algal limestone, limestone, and shale as much as 12.6 m thick. Both members fossiliferous (conodonts, goniatites, crinoids). Of Early Pennsylvanian, early Morrowan age. Cross section. Stratigraphic chart. Is a shallow open-marine carbonate to shoaled carbonate mudbank deposit.

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