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Neal Ranch Formation

Geologic formation in Texas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ18157824 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Neal Ranch Formation is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas

Paleontology in Texas

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 “Neal Ranch 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.