[1] Two formally named subunits of the Bluestone Formation, the Bramwell and Pride Shale Members, are quite fossiliferous.

This would make the Bluestone Formation the youngest occurrence of Mississippian-type conodonts in eastern North America.

[5] The Pride Shale Member has produced Tanypterichthys pridensis, an endemic species of deep-bodied palaeonisciform fish.

[6] The Pride Shale Member of the Bluestone Formation preserves interbedded variations in sediment coarseness.

Together, the different cycles reconstruct a deltaic environment near the equator which was heavily influenced by tides and a monsoonal climate.