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Wadleigh Limestone

Geologic formation in Alaska, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ18395982 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wadleigh Limestone is a geologic formation in Alaska. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alaska

Paleontology in Alaska

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2014.

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

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This entry incorporates text from “Wadleigh 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.