Usage:
/Sacfox subgroup [informal] of Wabaunsee Group (KS)
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Sacfox subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Subunits:
Severy Shale, Howard Limestone, and Scranton Shale.
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In Missouri River blufflands, between mouth of the Big Nemaha and Iowa Point, KS (Condra, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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