Includes the Sheep Pass Formation and equivalents in northern Nye, Lincoln, Elko, Eureka, Lander, and White Pine Counties. In most places the Sheep Pass Formation is Paleocene or Eocene (Fouch, Hanley, and Forester, 1979), although rocks from the Carlin-Piñon Range area that contain Late Cretaceous fossils have been included in the Sheep Pass Formation (Smith and Ketner, 1976, 1978). It corresponds to unit Ts1 on the 1978 State map.