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Caesar Canyon Limestone

lithostratigraphic unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ17513162 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Caesar Canyon Limestone is a geologic formation in Nevada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nevada

Paleontology in Nevada

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Caesar Canyon Limestone” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.