- Source: Bigfork Chert
The Bigfork Chert is a Middle to Late Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma. First described in 1892, this unit was not named until 1909 by Albert Homer Purdue in his study of the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Purdue assigned the town of Big Fork in Montgomery County, Arkansas as the type locality, but did not designate a stratotype. As of 2017, a reference section for this unit has yet to be designated. The Bigfork Chert is known to produce planerite, turquoise, variscite, and wavellite minerals.
Paleofauna
= Graptolites
=Climacograptus
C. antiquus
Dicellograptus
D. divaricatus
Diplograptus
D. trifidus
D. vulgatus
Glyptograptus
Lasiograptus
L. flaccidus
Mesograptus
M. perexcavatus
Orthograptus
O. quadrimucronatus
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Arkansas
Paleontology in Arkansas
