Usage:
Critzer Limestone Member of Hertha Limestone of /Bronson subgroup [informal] of Kansas City Group (KS)
Critzer Limestone Member of Shale Hill Formation of Pleasanton Group (MO)
Misspelled Critizer in early reports.
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Bronson subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
South of Critizer [Critzer], in sec. 17, T. 22 S., R. 23 E., Linn Co., KS (Jewett, 1932).
Reference section: on north side of roadcut along east-west gravel road through south end of Hilltop Mound, 1.5 mi east of Everett, on south line SW/4 SW/4 SW/4 sec. 19, T. 43 N., R. 31 W., Everett 7.5-min quadrangle, Cass Co., MO (Gentile and Thompson, 2004).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
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