Usage:
Wildcat Member of Taine Mountain Formation (CT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures south of Tunxis Trail in type locality of Taine Mountain Formation, outcrops east of Case Cemetery and on Wildcat Mountain, Collinsville and Bristol quadrangles, Hartford, Litchfield, and New Haven Cos., CT. (Stanley, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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