Chepultepec Dolomite (AL*)
Chepultepec Dolomite of Beekmantown Group (KY,OH,TN)
Chepultepec Dolomite of Knox Group (AL,GA*,KY*,TN*,VA*)
Chepultepec Formation (GA,WV)
Chepultepec Formation of Knox Group (TN,VA)
Chepultepec Dolomite Member of Beekmantown Formation of Knox Group (VA)
Early Ordovician*; locally latest Cambrian*
Named from exposures near Chepultepec [now Allgood], 30 mi northeast of Birmingham, Blount Co., north-central AL (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Appalachian basin*
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