Type Geologic formation Country United States Named by McAllister (1952) Overlies Hidden Valley Dolomite | Underlies Tin Mountain Limestone Named for Lost Burro Gap Primary Dolostone Regions Mojave Desert, California | |
The Lost Burro Formation is a Middle to Upper/Late Devonian geologic formation in the Mojave Desert of California, in the Western United States.
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Geology
The Dolomite formation is exposed in sections of the Darwin Hills, Santa Rosa Hills, Talc City Hills, Inyo Mountains near the Cerro Gordo Mines, Panamint Range near Towne Pass, and the Argus Range.
Fossils
Outcrops of the formation in Death Valley National Park have produced fossils of the placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli, a small cladodont shark, the crushing tooth of a cochliodont, and the pteraspidid Blieckaspis priscillae.
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Lost Burro Formation Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA