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Fort Gaines Formation

geologic formation in Alabama, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ18151012 ↗
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The Fort Gaines Formation is a geologic formation in Alabama. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alabama

Paleontology in Alabama

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 “Fort Gaines Formation” 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.