El Mamey Formation
El Mamey Formation (the Dominican Republic)
The El Mamey Formation is a geologic formation in the Dominican Republic. The formation consists of shales and sandstones interspersed with a conglomerate of well-rounded pebbles, deposited in a fluvio-deltaic environment. El Mamey Formation is one of the formations containing Dominican amber and preserves fossils dating back to the Burdigalian to Langhian period.[1]
Fossil content
- Palaeoraphe dominicana
- Roystonea palaea
- Sphaerodactylus ciguapa, S. dommeli
- Trithrinax dominicana
- Eleutherodactylus sp.
- Chilopoda indet.
- Diptera indet.
See also
Earth sciences portal
Dominican Republic portal
Paleontology portal
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Dominican Republic
- La Toca Formation
- Baitoa Formation
- Cercado Formation
References
- ^ El Mamey Formation at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
- G. O. Poinar, Jr. and D. C. Canatella. 1987. An upper Eocene frog from the Dominican Republic and its implication for Caribbean biogeography. Science 237:1215-1216
