Fairholme Group

The Fairholme Group is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (Frasnian) age.

It was named for the Fairholme Range near Exshaw in the Canadian Rockies by H.H.

[1][2] The formations of the Fairholme Group include fossils of marine animals such as stromatoporoids, corals, brachiopods, crinoids, and conodonts.

The Fairholme Group was deposited in marine environments and can be subdivided into three gross lithologic units:[1] The Fairholme Group is present in the Canadian Rockies from the Kakwa Lakes area of northeastern British Columbia, south through Alberta to the Flathead River region of southeastern British Columbia, as well as in the subsurface beneath the immediately adjacent plains to the east.

[1] The Fairholm Group overlies the Beaverhill Lake Group in the southern Alberta plains, and unconformably overlies the Middle Devonian Yahatinda Formation or pre-Devonian formations in the mountains.