Usage:
Taylor Group (LA,TX*)
Taylor Marl (LA*,TX*)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Anacacho Limestone (TX*), Annona Chalk (TX), Bergstrom Formation (TX*), Marlbrook Formation (TX), Neylandville Marl (TX), Ozan Formation (LA,TX), Pecan Gap Chalk (TX*) or Pecan Gap Formation (TX), Sprinkle Formation (TX*), Wolfe City Formation (TX) or Wolfe City Sand (TX*).
FORMATION STATUS --all in TX: Durango Sand Member*, Rogers Chalk Lens.
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Taylor Prairie, central TX (Hill, 1892).
AAPG geologic province:
East Texas basin*
Ouachita folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).