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The Floyd Shale is a geologic formation in Alabama and Georgia. It preserves
fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
dating back to the
Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...
period.


See also

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Georgia (U.S. state) See also * Paleontology in Georgia (U.S. state) References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Georgia (U.S. state) Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the United States, Georgia Paleontology in Georgia (U.S. state), ...
* Paleontology in Georgia (U.S. state)


References

* Geologic formations of Georgia (U.S. state) Shale formations of the United States Oil fields in Texas Oil-bearing shales in the United States Natural gas fields in the United States Carboniferous Georgia (U.S. state) Mississippian United States Carboniferous System of North America Carboniferous southern paleotropical deposits {{georgiaUS-stub