Bell Shale

{{Citations broken|section|date=March 2024}} {{Short description|Geologic Formation dating back to the Devonian Period in Michigan}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Bell Shale | image = | caption = | type = [[Formation (stratigraphy)|Formation]] | age = [[Middle Devonian]] | period = Middle Devonian | prilithology = | otherlithology = | namedfor = | namedby = | region = [[Michigan]] | country = [[United States]] | coordinates = | unitof = [[Traverse Group]] | subunits = | underlies = [[Rockport Quarry Limestone]] | overlies = [[Rogers City Limestone]] | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = | map_caption = }}

The '''Bell Shale''' is a [[Formation (geology)|geologic formation]] in [[Michigan]]. It preserves [[fossils]] dating back to the [[Devonian]] [[Period (geology)|period]]. {{Portal|Earth sciences|Michigan|Paleontology}}

==References== * {{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org/|access-date= 22 June 2014|archive-date= 25 March 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home|url-status= dead}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}

[[Category:Devonian Michigan]] [[Category:Middle Devonian Series]] [[Category:Shale formations of the United States]] [[Category:Geologic formations of Michigan]]