Lares Limestone
{{short description|Geologic formation in Puerto Rico}}
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| type = Formation
| age = Late Oligocene-Early Miocene
| period = Rupelian
| prilithology = Limestone
| otherlithology = Marl, shale phosphate
| namedfor = Lares
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| region = Caribbean
| country = Puerto Rico
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| lon_deg = -67.0
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The Lares Limestone is a geologic formation in Puerto Rico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Lares%20Limestone&group_formation_member=Lares%20Limestone Lares Limestone] at Fossilworks.org
Fossil content
- Callistosiren{{Cite journal|author1=Jorge Vélez Juarbe |author2=Daryl P. Domning |year=2015 |title=Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XI. Callistosiren boriquensis, gen. et sp. nov. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=e885034 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.885034 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E5034V }}
See also
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Further reading
- W. A. van den Bold. 1965. Middle Tertiary Ostracoda from northwestern Puerto Rico. Micropaleontology 11(4):381-414
- C. J. Maury. 1920. Tertiary Mollusca from Porto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 3(1):1-78
- R. D. E. MacPhee and A. R. Wyss. 1990. Oligo-Miocene vertebrates from Puerto Rico, with a catalog of localities. American Museum Novitates 2965:1-45
- J. Vélez Juarbe, T. Martin, R. D. MacPhee and D. Ortega Ariza. 2014. The earliest Caribbean rodents: Oligocene caviomorphs from Puerto Rico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):157-163
- J. Vélez Juarbe and D. P. Domning. 2011. A new dugongine (Sirenia; Dugongidae) from the Late Oligocene of Puerto Rico and its position within the Dugonginae. Sixth Triennial Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water 77
Category:Geologic formations of Puerto Rico
Category:Paleogene Puerto Rico
Category:Paleontology in the Caribbean