Holly Creek Formation

Holly Creek Formation
Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous
Type	Formation
Location
Region	Arkansas
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Little Holly Creek and Holly Creek, Howard County, Arkansas
Named by	Harold C. Vanderpool^[1]

The Holly Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period which belong to the Trinity Group.^[2]

Flora

Cheirolepidiaceae^[3]

Fauna

Indeterminate Chondrichthyes
Indeterminate Actinopterygii
- Indeterminate Amiidae
Indeterminate Semionotiformes
Indeterminate Pycnodontiformes
- Anomoeodus caddoi
Lissamphibia
Indeterminate Helochelydridae
- Naomichelys sp.
Indeterminate Trionychids
Indeterminate Coelognathosuchia
Squamata
- Sciroseps pawhuskai
Dinosauria
- Acrocanthosaurus sp.
- Deinonychus sp.
- Richardoestesia sp.
- Indeterminate Titanosauria
- Indeterminate Nodosauria

References

^ Vanderpool, H.C. (1928). "A preliminary study of the Trinity group in southwestern Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma, and northern Texas". Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 12: 1079–1080.
^ Suarez, Celina A.; Frederickson, Joseph; Cifelli, Richard L.; Pittman, Jeffrey G.; Nydam, Randall L.; Hunt-Foster, ReBecca K.; Morgan, Kirsty (2021-10-21). "A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA". PeerJ. 9: e12242. doi:10.7717/peerj.12242. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8542373. PMID 34721970.
^ AXSMITH, BRIAN J.; KRINGS, MICHAEL; WASELKOV, KATHERINE (February 2004). <0402:cpcftc>2.0.co;2 "Conifer Pollen Cones from the Cretaceous of Arkansas: Implications for Diversity and Reproduction in the Cheirolepidiaceae". Journal of Paleontology. 78 (2): 402–409. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0402:cpcftc>2.0.co;2. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 129310148.

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