Artemisa Formation Explained

Artemisa Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Late Oxfordian-Tithonian
Period:	Tithonian
Prilithology:	Shale, limestone
Namedfor:	Artemisa
Region:	Artemisa & Pinar del Río Provinces
Coordinates:	22.7°N -83.1°W
Paleocoordinates:	4.7°N -51.6°W
Subunits:	La Zarza & Sumidero Members
Extent:	Sierra del Rosario

The Artemisa Formation is a geologic formation in western Cuba.^[1] It preserves mainly ammonite fossils dating back to the Late Oxfordian to Tithonian period.^[2] The formation is divided into two members; La Zarza and Sumidero Members.^[3] Most of the formation was deposited in deeper marine conditions.^[4]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cuba

References

Bibliography

• Figueroa Guanche . Dunia . Cobiella Reguera . Jorge Luis . Cruz Gámez . Esther María . Gil González . Santa . 2013 . Petrografía y microfacies de las rocas carbonatadas de la Formación Artemisa en Soroa y alrededores, Sierra del Rosario, Cuba occidental . https://web.archive.org/web/20190209123920/http://www.redciencia.cu/geobiblio/paper/2013_Figueroa_GEO2-P13.pdf . 2019-02-09 . X Congreso Cubano de Geología . 2019-02-07.

Further reading

• Bermúdez . Pedro J . 1961 . Las formaciones geológicas de Cuba . . 1 . 2019-02-06.
• R. Myczynski. 1989. Ammonite biostratigraphy of the Tithonian of Western Cuba. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 59:43-125

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Artemisa&group_formation_member=Artemisa Artemisa Formation
2. Zell, P. . Stinnesbeck, W. . 2016. Salinites grossicostatum Imlay, 1939 and S. finicostatum sp. nov. from the latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of northeastern Mexico . Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 68. 2. 305–311. 10.18268/BSGM2016v68n2a8. free.
3. Figueroa Guanche et al., 2013, p.2
4. Figueroa Guanche et al., 2013, p.5