The Bell Canyon Formation is a geologic formation found in the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas.

It contains fossils characteristic of the Guadalupian Age of the Permian Period.

[1] The formation consists mostly of marine sandstone and siltstone, but with five interfingering tongues of gray limestone.

Total thickness of the formation is 200–300 meters (660–980 ft).

[2] The formation's Lamar Limestone Member of Guadalupe Mountains National Park has produced fossil holocephalan teeth.