List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Paraguay

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Paraguay.

Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Paraguay
General Bruguer/Riacho Negro
Misiones Formation
San Miguel Formation
Cariy Sandstone
Eusebio Ayala Formation
Tagatiya Guazu Formation

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
General Bruguer/Riacho Negro		Pleistocene	[1]
	Misiones Formation	Aptian	[2]
Independencia	San Miguel Formation	Artinskian	[3]
	Cariy Sandstone	Telychian	[4]
	Vargas Peña Shale	Llandovery	[5]
Itacurubi	Eusebio Ayala Formation or Ayala Sandstone	Hirnantian	[6]
Itapucumi	Tagatiya Guazu Formation	Ediacaran	[7]

See also

• Geology of Paraguay
• South American land mammal age
• Gomphothere fossils in Paraguay
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia

References

1. General Bruguer/Riacho Negro at Fossilworks.org
2. San Cristóbal quarry at Fossilworks.org
3. Villa Rica at Fossilworks.org
4. Cariy Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
5. Vargas Peña Shale at Fossilworks.org
6. Eusebio Ayala Formation at Fossilworks.org
7. Tagatiya Guazu Formation at Fossilworks.org

Further reading

• L. E. Babcock, J. Gray, A. J. Boucot, G. T. Himes, and P. K. Siegele. 1990. First Silurian conulariids from Paraguay. Journal of Paleontology 64(6):897-902
• J. L. Benedetto, K. Halpern, and J. C. Galeano Inchausti. 2013. High-latitude Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) brachiopods from the Eusebio Ayala Formation of Paraguay, Paraná Basin. Palaeontology 56(1):61-78
• A. J. Boucot, J. H. G. Melo, E. V. Santos Neto and S. Wolff. 1991. First Clarkeia and Heterorthella (Brachiopoda; Lower Silurian) occurrence from the Parana Basin in eastern Paraguay. Journal of Paleontology 65(3):512-514
• H. J. Harrington. 1972. Silurian of Paraguay. Geological Society of America Special Paper 133:41-50
• S. de Valais, V. Filippi, S. Molinas and R. Souberlich. 2012. Descripción de una huella de terópodo de la Formación Misiones: primer fósil mesozoico fidedigno de Paraguay [Description of a theropod footprint from the Misiones Formation: first reliable Mesozoic fossil from Paraguay]. Andean Geology 39(3):541-547
• L. V. Warren, T. R. Fairchild, C. Gaucher, P. C. Boggiani, D. G. Poire, L. E. Anelli, and J. C. G. Inchausti. 2011. Corumbella and in situ Cloudina in association with thrombolites in the Ediacaran Itapucumi Group, Paraguay. Terra Nova 23:382-389
• Various, Authors. 1986. Mapa Geológico del Paraguay - Proyecto PAR 86 - Escala 1:1,000,000 - Texto explicativo, 1–62. _. Accessed 2018-09-03.