Usage:
Medicine Lodge Creek Member of Tensleep Sandstone (WY)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures in the canyon of Medicine Lodge Creek, in center T. 50 N., R. 89 W., [Hyatt Ranch 7.5-min quadrangle], Big Horn Co., central northern WY (Moore, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Bighorn basin
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