Beattie Formation

The Beattie Formation, or Beattie Limestone, is a geologic formation in east-central Kansas, northeast-central Oklahoma, and southeastern Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.^[1][2] It preserves fossils dating to the Permian period.

Beattie Formation
Stratigraphic range: Lower Permian
Type	Formation
Unit of	Council Grove Group
Sub-units	Morrill Limestone Florena Shale Cottonwood Limestone
Underlies	Stearns Shale
Overlies	Eskridge Shale
Lithology
Primary	Limestone, Shale
Location
Region	mid-continental
Country	United States
Extent	outcrops from southeast Nebraska to northeast-central Oklahoma[1]
Type section
Named for	Beattie, Kansas[2]
Named by	Condra, G.E., and Busby, C.E.[2]
Year defined	1933[2]

See also

• Earth sciences portal
• Kansas portal
• Oklahoma portal
• Paleontology portal

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kansas
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nebraska
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Oklahoma
• Paleontology in Kansas
• Paleontology in Nebraska
• Paleontology in Oklahoma