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Buena Vista Formation

Buena Vista Formation

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The Buena Vista Formation is a Late Permian-Early Triassic geologic formation of the Cerro Largo Department in northeastern Uruguay. The fluvial sandstones and mudstones preserve temnospondyl and archosaur fossils.

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The Buena Vista Formation is characterized by reddish fine sandstone interbedded with lenticular clay layers and intraformational conglomerates deposited in a fluvial environment.[1]

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The following fossils have been reported from the formation:[2][1]

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References

  1. [1]
    Pineiro et al., 2003
  2. [2]
    Buena Vista Formation at Fossilworks.org
  3. [3]
    Graciela Piñeiro; Alejandro Ramos; Claudia Marsicano (2012). "A rhinesuchid-like temnospondyl from the Permo-Triassic of Uruguay". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (1): 65–78. Bibcode:2012CRPal..11...65P. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2011.07.007.

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