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Maryville Limestone

geologic formation in Tennessee, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ18155118 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Maryville Limestone is a geologic formation in Tennessee. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tennessee

Paleontology in Tennessee

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maryville 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.