• Source: Piragua Formation

The Piragua Formation is a geologic formation in Cuba. The limestone intercalated with tuff formation preserves rudist fossils dating back to the Santonian period.




Fossil content


Durania curasavica, D. lopeztrigoi
Praebarrettia corrali
Torreites tschoppi
Vaccinites inaequicostatus
Plagioptychus sp.
?Mitrocaprina sp.




See also


List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cuba




References






Further reading


Bermúdez, Pedro J (1961), "Las formaciones geológicas de Cuba" (PDF), Geología Cubana, 1: 1–180, retrieved 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

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Piragua Formation
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Caribbean
• Celso Piña
• History of Antigua and Barbuda
• Puerto Rico
• Nuyorican movement
• Spanish conquest of Yucatán