Brasso_Formation

Brasso Formation

Brasso Formation

Geologic formation in Trinidad and Tobago

The Brasso Formation is a geologic formation in Trinidad and Tobago. It preserves fossils dating back to the Early Eocene to Serravallian period.[1]

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Among others, the formation has provided fossils of:

  • Dentimides[2]
  • Lepidophanes brassoensis[3]
  • Myctophum mundulum[3]
  • Neobythites huddlestoni[4]
  • Ophioscion transitivus[5]
  • Xenotolithus semiostialis[5]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Brasso Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. [2]
    Landau et al., 2016
  3. [3]
    Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2013
  4. [4]
    Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2016
  5. [5]
    Aguilera et al., 2016

Bibliography

  • Orangel A. Aguilera; Werner Schwarzhans; Philippe Béarez (2016). "Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America". Palaeo Ichthyologica. 14: 7–90.
  • Bernard Manuel Landau; Carlos Marques da Silva; Antoine Heitz (2016). "Systematics of the gastropods of the lower-middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela" (PDF). Bulletins of American Paleontology. 389–390: 1–581. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  • Werner Schwarzhans; Orangel Aguilera (2016). "Otoliths of the Ophidiiformes from the Neogene of tropical America". Palaeo Ichthyologica. 14: 91–124.
  • Werner Schwarzhans; Orangel Aguilera (2013). "Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America". Palaeo Ichthyologica. 13: 83–150.
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