Brasso Formation
{{Short description|Geologic formation in Trinidad and Tobago}}
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| name = Brasso Formation
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| type = Formation
| period = Rupelian
| age = Early Eocene-Serravallian
| prilithology = Claystone, sandstone
| otherlithology = Limestone
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| country = Trinidad and Tobago
| coordinates = {{coord|10.6|N|61.1|W|display=inline,title}}
| paleocoordinates = {{coord|8.1|N|51.4|W|display=inline}}
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| subunits = Machapoorie Limestone
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| width = 200
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{{Location map~ | Trinidad and Tobago
| lat_deg = 10.6
| lon_deg = -61.1
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The Brasso Formation is a geologic formation in Trinidad and Tobago. It preserves fossils dating back to the Early Eocene to Serravallian period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Brasso&group_formation_member=Brasso Brasso Formation] at Fossilworks.org
Fossil content
Among others, the formation has provided fossils of:
See also
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References
{{reflist|20em}}
= Bibliography =
- {{Cite journal|author1=Orangel A. Aguilera |author2=Werner Schwarzhans |author3=Philippe Béarez |year=2016 |title=Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America |journal=Palaeo Ichthyologica |volume=14 |pages=7–90 }}
- {{Cite journal |author1=Bernard Manuel Landau |author2=Carlos Marques da Silva |author3=Antoine Heitz |year=2016 |title=Systematics of the gastropods of the lower-middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=389–390 |pages=1–581 |url=https://www.priweb.org/downloads/pubs/item_pdf_5807.pdf |access-date=2019-02-07 |archive-date=2018-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619034402/http://www.priweb.org/downloads/pubs/item_pdf_5807.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- {{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=Orangel Aguilera |year=2016 |title=Otoliths of the Ophidiiformes from the Neogene of tropical America |journal=Palaeo Ichthyologica |volume=14 |pages=91–124 }}
- {{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=Orangel Aguilera |year=2013 |title=Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America |journal=Palaeo Ichthyologica |volume=13 |pages=83–150 |url=http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/07pala/e4_66.php }}
Category:Geologic formations of the Caribbean
Category:Neogene Trinidad and Tobago
Category:Paleogene Trinidad and Tobago