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Springvale Formation

geologic formation in Trinidad and Tobago

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ21071071 ↗
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The Springvale Formation is a geologic formation in Trinidad and Tobago. It preserves fossils dating back to the Late Miocene period.

Fossil content

Among others, the formation has provided fossils of:

Hindsiclava consors

Plagioscion ultimus

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Trinidad and Tobago

References

Bibliography

Orangel A. Aguilera; Werner Schwarzhans; Philippe Béarez (2016). "Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America". Palaeo Ichthyologica. 14: 7–90.

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This entry incorporates text from “Springvale Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.