Piragua Formation
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| name = Piragua Formation
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| type = Formation
| period = Santonian
| age = Santonian
~{{fossil range|85.8|84.9}}
| prilithology = Limestone
| otherlithology = Tuff
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| region = Camagüey Province
| country = {{CUB}}
| coordinates = {{coord|21.5|N|77.8|W|display=inline,title}}
| paleocoordinates = {{coord|12.5|N|57.1|W|display=inline}}
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| relief = 1
| width = 200
| float = center
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| lat_deg = 21.5
| lon_deg = -77.8
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The Piragua Formation is a geologic formation in Cuba. The limestone intercalated with tuff formation preserves rudist fossils dating back to the Santonian period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=73280 Piragua Formation] at Fossilworks.org
Fossil content
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{citation |last=Bermúdez |first=Pedro J |year=1961 |title=Las formaciones geológicas de Cuba |url=http://paleoarchive.com/literature/Bermudez1961-FormacionesGeologicasCuba.pdf |journal=Geología Cubana |volume=1 |pages=1–180 |accessdate=2019-02-06}}
- R. Rojas, M. Iturralde Vinent, and P. W. Skelton. 1995. Stratigraphy, composition and age of Cuban rudist-bearing deposits. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 12(2):272-291
Category:Geologic formations of Cuba