Grand Bay Formation

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| age = Middle Miocene

| period = Tortonian

| prilithology = Tuff

| otherlithology = Sandstone

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| region = Carriacou

| country = Grenada

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The Grand Bay Formation is a geologic formation in Grenada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle Miocene period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Grand%20Bay&group_formation_member=Grand%20Bay Grand Bay Formation] at Fossilworks.org

Fossil content

Ophiocamax ventosaJagt et al., 2014
Paragonaster(?) haldixoni
TorqueolivaLandau, da Silva & Heitz, 2016

References

= Bibliography =

{{cite journal |author1=John W. M. Jagt |author2=Ben Thuy |author3=Stephen K. Donovan |author4=Sabine Stöhr |author5=Roger W. Portell |author6=Ron K. Pickerill |author7=David A. T. Harper |author8=William Lindsay |author9=Trevor A. Jackson |year=2014 |title=A starfish bed in the Middle Miocene Grand Bay Formation of Carriacou, The Grenadines (West Indies) |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=151 |issue=3 |pages=381–393 |doi=10.1017/S0016756813000204 |bibcode=2014GeoM..151..381J |s2cid=54043578 |url=http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/6917 }}
{{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=2019-02-05 |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 }}

Grand Bay Formation

Fossil content

See also

References

= Bibliography =

Further reading