Lynx Formation

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| name = Lynx Formation (Group)

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| type = Formation or Group

| age = {{Fossil range|Late Cambrian|Late Cambrian|Dresbachian}}

| prilithology = Carbonate rocks

| otherlithology = Shale

| namedfor = Lynx Mountain

| namedby = C.D. Walcott, 1913

| region = Canadian Rockies

| country = Canada

| coordinates = {{coord|53.1407|-119.0492|display=inline,title|name= Lynx Formation}}

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| subunits = Mistaya Formation
Bison Creek Formation
Lyell Formation
Sullivan Formation
Waterfowl Formation

| underlies = Survey Peak Formation

| overlies = Arctomys Formation

| thickness = up to {{convert|1220|m|ft|-1}}

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The Lynx Formation or Lynx Group is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cambrian (Dresbachian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.{{Cite web|url=http://ags.aer.ca/reports/atlas-of-the-western-canada-sedimentary-basin.htm|title=The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (Mossop, G.D. and Shetsen, I., compilers), Chapter 8: Middle Cambrian and Early Ordovician Strata of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin|author=Slind, O.L., Andrews, G.D., Murray, D.L., Norford, B.S., Paterson, D.F., Salas, C.J., and Tawadros, E.E., Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Geological Survey|year=1994|accessdate=2018-07-13}} It is present in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. It was originally described as the Lynx Formation by Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1913, based on and named for outcrops on the slopes of Lynx Mountain on the continental divide east of Mount Robson. It was subdivided into five formations and elevated to group status by J.D. Aitken and R.G. Greggs in 1967.Aitken, J. D and Greggs, R G., 1967. Upper Cambrian formations, southern Rocky Mountains of Alberta, an interim report. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 66-49. The name Lynx Formation continues to be used in areas where some or all of the subdivisions cannot be distinguished. All of the formations in the Lynx Group include fossil trilobites and some contain the stromatolite Collenia.