List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Paraguay
Appearance
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Paraguay.
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units
[edit]Group | Formation | Period | Notes |
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General Bruguer/Riacho Negro | Pleistocene | [1] | |
Misiones Formation | Aptian | [2] | |
Independencia | San Miguel Formation | Artinskian | [3] |
Cariy Sandstone | Telychian | [4] | |
Vargas Peña Shale | Llandovery | [5] | |
Itacurubi | Eusebio Ayala Formation or Ayala Sandstone |
Hirnantian | [6] |
Itapucumi | Tagatiya Guazu Formation | Ediacaran | [7] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ General Bruguer/Riacho Negro at Fossilworks.org
- ^ San Cristóbal quarry at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Villa Rica at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cariy Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Vargas Peña Shale at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Eusebio Ayala Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Tagatiya Guazu Formation at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
[edit]- L. E. Babcock, J. Gray, A. J. Boucot, G. T. Himes, and P. K. Siegele. 1990. First Silurian conulariids from Paraguay. Journal of Paleontology 64(6):897-902
- J. L. Benedetto, K. Halpern, and J. C. Galeano Inchausti. 2013. High-latitude Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) brachiopods from the Eusebio Ayala Formation of Paraguay, Paraná Basin. Palaeontology 56(1):61-78
- A. J. Boucot, J. H. G. Melo, E. V. Santos Neto and S. Wolff. 1991. First Clarkeia and Heterorthella (Brachiopoda; Lower Silurian) occurrence from the Parana Basin in eastern Paraguay. Journal of Paleontology 65(3):512-514
- H. J. Harrington. 1972. Silurian of Paraguay. Geological Society of America Special Paper 133:41-50
- S. de Valais, V. Filippi, S. Molinas and R. Souberlich. 2012. Descripción de una huella de terópodo de la Formación Misiones: primer fósil mesozoico fidedigno de Paraguay [Description of a theropod footprint from the Misiones Formation: first reliable Mesozoic fossil from Paraguay]. Andean Geology 39(3):541-547
- L. V. Warren, T. R. Fairchild, C. Gaucher, P. C. Boggiani, D. G. Poire, L. E. Anelli, and J. C. G. Inchausti. 2011. Corumbella and in situ Cloudina in association with thrombolites in the Ediacaran Itapucumi Group, Paraguay. Terra Nova 23:382-389
- Various, Authors (1986), Mapa Geológico del Paraguay - Proyecto PAR 86 - Escala 1:1,000,000 - Texto explicativo (PDF), pp. 1–62, retrieved 2018-09-03