Telephone Canyon Formation of Fredericksburg Group (TX)
late Early Cretaceous (Albian)
Telephone Canyon where Heath Creek crosses the Sierra del Caballo Muerto Range in the Sierra del Carmen, Big Bend National Park, southwestern TX (Maxwell and Dietrich, 1965; Maxwell and others, 1967).
Permian basin
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