List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Central America
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This page lists the fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Central America.
Belize
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10px Ambergris Cay Limestone
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Group | Formation | Period | class="unsortable" | Notes |
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Ambergris Cay Limestone | style="background-color: {{period color|tarantian}};" | Late Pleistocene | align=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=88824 Ambergris Limestone] at Fossilworks.org |
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El Salvador
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10px Cuscatlán Formation
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Group | Formation | Period | class="unsortable" | Notes |
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Cuscatlán Formation | style="background-color: {{period color|piacenzian}};" | Blancan-Irvingtonian | align=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Cuscatl%E1n&group_formation_member=Cuscatl%E1n Cuscatlán Formation] at Fossilworks.org |
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Guatemala
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10px Herreria Formation
10px Campur Formation
10px Ixcoy Formation
10px Chocal Formation
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{{Location map~ | Guatemala
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{{Location map~ | Guatemala
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Honduras
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10px Gracias Formation
10px Esquias Formation
10px Valle de Ángeles Redbeds
10px Cantarranas Formation
10px Agua Fría Formation
10px El Plan Formation
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Nicaragua
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10px Las Sierras Formation
10px El Salto Formation
10px Brito Formation
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Group | Formation | Period | class="unsortable" | Notes |
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Las Sierras Formation | style="background-color: {{period color|pleistocene}};" | Pleistocene | align=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=86961 Las Sierras Formation] at Fossilworks.org | |
El Salto Formation | style="background-color: {{period color|zanclean}};" | Early Pliocene | align=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=86947 El Salto Formation] at Fossilworks.org | |
Brito Formation | style="background-color: {{period color|priabonian}};" | Late Eocene | align=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=124538 Brito Formation] at Fossilworks.org |
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Costa Rica
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10px Charco Azul Group
10px Limón Group
10px Curré Formation
10px Oligocene
10px Paleocene-Eocene
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{{Location map~ | Costa Rica
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Panama
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10px Charco Azul Group
10px Bocas del Toro Group
10px Chagres Formation
10px Culebra Formation
10px Tuira Formation
10px Gatún Formation
10px Gatuncillo Formation
10px Tonosí Formation
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{{Location map~ | Panama
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{{Location map~ | Panama
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{{Location map~ | Panama
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{{Location map~ | Panama
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{{Location map~ | Panama
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{{Location map~ | Panama
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See also
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- Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in North America
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Caribbean
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References
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- {{citation |last=Silva Romo |first=Gilberto |year=2008 |title=Origen tectónico y evolución de la Cuenca Tehuitzingo-Tepexi, Estado de Puebla (PhD thesis) |url=http://www.geociencias.unam.mx/geociencias/posgrado/tesis/doctorado/romo_sg.pdf |publisher=UNAM |pages=1–209 |accessdate=2019-02-19}}
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