The Nevada Group is an abandoned term for a geologic group in Nevada. The group, reflected a collection of rocks then thought to preserve fossils dating back to the Devonian period.
The term was abandoned as a geologic unit because it is "a collection of distinctive rock units deposited in variety of depositional environments.", stated at National Geologic Map Database: Geolex — Significant Publications
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nevada Paleontology in Nevada
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