The Paleontology of North America

The Ordovician in Kansas, US

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See exposures in this state from the:
Quaternary
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian

Ordovician Fossils
Fossil photos from Ordovician in Kansas

Paleontology and geology

There are no rocks of Ordovician age exposed in Kansas. Thick sequences of sandstone and the mineral dolomite are found generally statewide, but only in the subsurface.
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