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Cordobés Formation

The Cordobés Formation is an Early Devonian (Pragian to Emsian) geologic formation of the Durazno Group in the Paraná Basin in the Durazno Department of central Uruguay. The shallow marine shales preserve trilobite, bivalve, gastropod and brachiopod fossils.

Description

The Cordobés Formation is characterized by reddish fine shale deposited in a shallow marine environment.

Fossil content

The following fossils have been reported from the formation:

See also

References

  1. ^ Emsian Loc. 1 of Melo: Uraguayan outcrop belt at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Daners et al., 2017
  3. ^ Melo, 1988

Bibliography

  • Daners, Gloria; Le Hérissé, Alain; Breuer, Pierre; Veroslavsky, Gerardo (2017), "Pragian–Emsian palynomorphs from the Cordobés Formation, Norte Basin, Uruguay: stratigraphically restricted and regionally correlative palynological events in the cool-water Malvinokaffric Realm", Palynology, 41 (sup1): 121–137, doi:10.1080/01916122.2017.1366115, ISSN 0191-6122
  • Melo, J. H. G (1988), The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil. N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass, eds. Devonian of the World, Volume I, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 669–703