The Habana Formation is a
geologic formation
A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics ( lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exp ...
in
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
. It preserves mainly
gastropod and
rudist
Rudists are a group of extinct box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the order Hippuritida that arose during the Late Jurassic and became so diverse during the Cretaceous that they were major reef-building organisms ...
fossils dating back to the
Late Campanian
The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campanian ...
to
Maastrichtian
The Maastrichtian () is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval ...
periods.
Habana Formation
at Fossilworks.org The formation was defined by Robert H. Palmer in 1934.[Bermúdez, 1964, p.29]
See also
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cuba
References
Bibliography
*
Further reading
* {{citation , author=Pedro J Bermúdez , year=1961 , title=Las formaciones geológicas de Cuba , url=http://paleoarchive.com/literature/Bermudez1961-FormacionesGeologicasCuba.pdf , journal= Geología Cubana , volume=1 , pages=1–180 , accessdate=2019-02-06
* N. F. Sohl and H. A. Kollmann. 1985. Cretaceous Actaeonellid Gastropods from the Western Hemisphere. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1304:1-104
* A. Torre. 1960. Notas sobre rudistas otes about rudists Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural 25(1):51-64
Geologic formations of Cuba
Cretaceous Cuba
Campanian Stage
Maastrichtian Stage of North America
Limestone formations
Shallow marine deposits
Formations
Formations