Gering Formation

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| name = Gering Formation

| image = Nimravus major (fossil false sabertooth mammal with canine tooth piercing another bone) (Oligocene; Black Hank Canyon, Wildcat Hills, Nebraska, USA) 3 (32430952580).jpg

| caption = Fossils from the Gering Formation (Oligocene; Nebraska)

| type = Group

| age = Paleogene

| period = Paleogene

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| region = Nebraska

| country = United States

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The Gering Formation is a geologic group in Nebraska. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.{{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org|access-date= 17 December 2021|archive-date= 25 March 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home|url-status= live}} The formation is made of layers of very fine-grained, volcaniclastic sandstone and thin, horizontally stratified pale-to-gray brown sandstone, as well as sand crystals and ash beds.{{cite web |title=Geology and Paleontology - Scotts Bluff National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/scbl/learn/nature/geology-and-paleontology.htm |website=www.nps.gov |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=en}}