Dead River Formation (ME*,NH*)
Cambrian, Late(?)*
Ordovician*
Ordovician, Early(?)*
Whiterockian*
Type area: Long Falls of Dead River, Little Bigelow Mountain area, Somerset Co., western ME (Boone, 1973).
New England province*
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