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The Thomonde 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 ...
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Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
. It preserves
fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
dating back to the Early to Middle Miocene
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See also

* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Haiti


References


Further reading

* M. J. Rathbun. 1923. Fossil Crabs from the Republic of Haiti. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 63:1-6 * H. E. Vokes and E. H. Vokes. 1968. Variation in the genus ''Orthaulax'' (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 6(2):71-84 Geologic formations of the Caribbean Geology of Haiti Neogene Caribbean {{Haiti-geo-stub