Usage:
No current usage.
(†Rattlesnake Formation or †Rattlesnake Beds (TX) replaced with Aguja Formation. See Aguja.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Rattlesnake Mountain, a dissected low dome on east side of lower Terlingua Creek, about 4 mi south of Big Bend Post Office, southern Brewster Co., TX (Udden, 1907).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
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