Bluff Mesa Limestone of Trinity Group (TX*)
Bluff Mesa Formation of Trinity Group (TX*)
Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch, Trinitian Provincial Age)*
Named from exposures at Bluff Mesa, El Paso Co., southwestern TX (Gillerman, 1953).
Permian basin*
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