It preserves fossils dating back to the middle Devonian period and correlates with the Long Lake Limestone and Alpena Limestone.

[1] The Michigan Basin was a shallow marine shelf during the middle Devonian, located between 30º South and 20º North latitude in central Laurasia.

According to stratigraphic and paleontological examination, the sediments of the Gravel Point Formation were deposited in a shallow lagoonal reef environment.

[1] Several species of ostracods, an unidentified arthropod 'hook', crinoid columnals and several species of polychaetes and scolecodonts are known from the formation.

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