Beaver Dam Shale Member of Needmore Shale (MD,PA,VA,WV)
Middle Devonian
Type locality: in large cuts on the Pennsylvania RR east of Newton Hamilton, Mifflin Co., central PA. Named from brook at type locality (Bradford, 1939).
Appalachian basin
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