Cordobés Formation
Geologic formation in Uruguay
Cordobés Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Pragian-Emsian ~409–392 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Durazno Group |
Underlies | La Paloma Formation |
Overlies | Cerrezuelo Formation |
Thickness | 92 m (302 ft) |
Lithology | |
Primary | Shale |
Other | Fine sandstone |
Location | |
Coordinates | Cordobés Formation (Uruguay) |
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.[1][2]
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:[1][3]
- Trilobites
- Acaste sp.
- Burmeisteria sp.
- Metacryphaeus sp.
- ?Calmonia sp.
- ?Paracalmonia sp.
- ?Pennaia sp.
- Lophophorata
- Strophomenata
- Australostrophia sp.
- Notiochonetes sp.
- Schuchertella sp.
- Rhynchonellata
- Derbyina sp.
- Australospirifer sp.
- Australocoelia sp.
- Lingulata
- Orbiculoidea sp.
- "Lingula" sp.
- Styliolina sp.
- "Serpulites" sp.
- Bivalves
- Modiolus sp.
- Modiomorpha sp.
- Goniophora sp.
- Pleurodapis sp.
- Nuculites sp.
- "Nuculana" sp.
- Gastropods
- Encrinaster sp.
- Plectonotus sp.
See also
References
- ^ a b Emsian Loc. 1 of Melo: Uraguayan outcrop belt at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Daners et al., 2017
- ^ 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
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- Camacho Formation
- Cordobés Formation
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- Mercedes Formation
- Queguay Formation
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- Tacuarembó Formation
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