Usage:
Bayhorse Dolomite (ID*)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian and/or Early Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Bayhorse and Bayhorse Creek, Custer Co., southern central ID. Best exposed near town (Ross, 1932, 1934).
AAPG geologic province:
Idaho Mountains province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).