Lares Limestone
| Lares Limestone | ||
|---|---|---|
Approximate paleocoordinates 17°36′N 66°00′W / 17.6°N 66.0°W | | |
| Region | Caribbean | |
| Country | Puerto Rico | |
| Type section | ||
| Named for | Lares | |
  Lares Limestone (Puerto Rico) | ||
The Lares Limestone is a
period.[1]
Fossil content
See also
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Puerto Rico
References
- ^ Lares Limestone at Fossilworks.org
- .
Further reading
- W. A. van den Bold. 1965. Middle Tertiary Ostracoda from northwestern Puerto Rico. Micropaleontology 11(4):381-414
- C. J. Maury. 1920. Tertiary Mollusca from Porto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 3(1):1-78
- R. D. E. MacPhee and A. R. Wyss. 1990. Oligo-Miocene vertebrates from Puerto Rico, with a catalog of localities. American Museum Novitates 2965:1-45
- J. Vélez Juarbe, T. Martin, R. D. MacPhee and D. Ortega Ariza. 2014. The earliest Caribbean rodents: Oligocene caviomorphs from Puerto Rico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):157-163
- J. Vélez Juarbe and D. P. Domning. 2011. A new dugongine (Sirenia; Dugongidae) from the Late Oligocene of Puerto Rico and its position within the Dugonginae. Sixth Triennial Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water 77