Lorraine Group

Lorraine Group
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
Type Group
Sub-units Utica Shale, Frankfort Shale, and the Whetstone Gulf Formation[1]
Overlies Trenton Group
Location
Region Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario, Quebec
Country Canada and United States

The Lorraine Group is a geologic group in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician Period.

The group is host to pyritized trilobites and other fossils in New York including the Beecher's Trilobite Bed.[1]

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