Usage:
Coon Spring Sandstone Bed of Tununk Member of Mancos Shale (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Turonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: near center SE/4 sec. 24, T. 17 S., R. 13 E., Emery Co., UT. Named from Coon Spring in NE/4 sec. 3, T. 17 S., R. 13 E., Emery Co., UT (Molenaar and Cobban, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin*
Uinta basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).