Hanna Formation

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| name = Hanna Formation

| image = Petrified Wood in Wyoming.jpg

| caption = Petrified wood from the Hanna Formation

| type = Formation

| age = Selandian-Thanetian (Torrejonian-Tiffanian)
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| period = Thanetian

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| namedfor = High Hanna Hill

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| region = Wyoming

| country = {{USA}}

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| extent = Carbon Basin

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| lat_deg = 41.8

| lon_deg = -107.0

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File:Tilted Rock Layers in Wyoming 1.jpg

The Hanna Formation is a geologic formation in Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Torrejonian to Tiffanian stages of the Paleogene period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Hanna&group_formation_member=Hanna Hanna Formation] at Fossilworks.org

See also

References

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Further reading

  • C. S. Scott and R. C. Fox. 2005. Windows on the evolution of Picrodus (Plesiadapiformes: Primates): morphology and relationships of a species complex from the Paleocene of Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 79(4):635-657
  • R. Secord. 1998. Paleocene mammalian biostratigraphy of the Carbon Basin, southeastern Wyoming, and age constraints on local phases of tectonism. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):119-154
  • J. A. Lillegraven. 1994. Age of upper reaches of Hanna Formation, northern Hanna Basin, south-central Wyoming. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E (Paläobiologie) 13:203-219

Category:Paleogene geology of Wyoming

Category:Selandian Stage

Category:Thanetian Stage

Category:Tiffanian

Category:Torrejonian

Category:Paleontology in Wyoming

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