Brasso Formation Explained

Brasso Formation
Type:	Formation
Period:	Rupelian
Age:	Early Eocene-Serravallian
Prilithology:	Claystone, sandstone
Otherlithology:	Limestone
Country:	Trinidad and Tobago
Coordinates:	10.6°N -61.1°W
Paleocoordinates:	8.1°N -51.4°W
Subunits:	Machapoorie Limestone

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

Fossil content

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

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Trinidad and Tobago

References

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 . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 389–390 . 1–581 . 2019-02-07 . 2018-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180619034402/http://www.priweb.org/downloads/pubs/item_pdf_5807.pdf . dead .
• 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 .

Notes and References

1. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Brasso&group_formation_member=Brasso Brasso Formation
2. Landau et al., 2016
3. Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2013
4. Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2016
5. Aguilera et al., 2016