Usage:
Coonewah Bed of Demopolis Formation (MS,TN)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (late Campanian; Tayloran Provincial Age)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: west valley wall of Coonewah Creek, 2.5 mi west of Verona, approx. at southeast corner of SW/4 sec. 22, T. 10 S., R. 5 E., Lee Co., northern MS (Mellen, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin
Upper Mississippi embayment
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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