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Ouray Formation

geologic formation in Colorado, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ17380048 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ouray Formation is a geologic formation in Colorado. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colorado

Paleontology in Colorado

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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“Ouray Formation” enters the record as geologic formation in Colorado, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ouray, Formation and geologic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ouray 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.