Temple Butte Formation

The Temple Butte Formation is a Middle-to-Upper Devonian stratigraphic unit in Arizona. The formation's eastern facies in Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Parashant National Monument preserve the remains of prehistoric freshwater fishes like Bothriolepis and placoganoids.^[1] In Grand Canyon National Park marine fish left behind the fossilized remains of their bony plates.^[2]

Footnotes

1. "Lake Meade National Recreation Area and Parashant National Monument," Hunt, Santucci, and Kenworthy (2006); page 64.
2. "Grand Canyon National Park," Hunt, Santucci, and Kenworthy (2006); page 64.

References

• Hunt, ReBecca K., Vincent L. Santucci and Jason Kenworthy. 2006. "A preliminary inventory of fossil fish from National Park Service units." in S.G. Lucas, J.A. Spielmann, P.M. Hester, J.P. Kenworthy, and V.L. Santucci (ed.s), Fossils from Federal Lands. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 34, pp. 63–69.