The Castilletes Formation (Spanish: Formación Castilletes, N1c) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the Cocinetas Basin in the northernmost department of La Guajira, Colombia. The formation consists of fossiliferous mudstones, siltstones and medium-grained to conglomeratic fossiliferous lithic to quartzitic sandstones. The Castilletes Formation dates to the Neogene period; Burdigalian to Langhian stages, Colloncuran and Friasian in the SALMA classification, and has a maximum thickness of 440 metres (1,440 ft).
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metres (1,440 ft). The formation was defined by Rollins in 1965 and named after the village of Castilletes. The CastilletesFormation consists of fossiliferous...
partial skull and mandible of a second species H. miyou from the CastilletesFormation in the Cocinetas Basin of northern Colombia, and estimated the body...
Miocene Solimões Formation, Brazil Honda Group and CastilletesFormation, Colombia Culebra Formation, Panama Fitzcarrald Arch and Pebas Formation, Peru Urumaco...
Bahía Inglesa Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of Chile CastilletesFormation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of the Cocinetas...
the Gatún Formation of Panama, the Calvert Formation of Maryland, Banco de Concepción in the Canary Islands, and the Bone Valley Formation of Florida...
and invertebrate fossil fauna assemblages. The Uitpa, Jimol, Castilletes and Ware Formations contain numerous fossils of Neogene and Quaternary ages, both...
genus Ptychodus recovered from the Lincoln Limestone of the Greenhorn Formation (Barton County, Kansas, USA) and its implications for the phylogenetic...
Miocene Jimol Formation and the early/middle Miocene CastilletesFormation in Colombia, and from the Oligo-Miocene boundary Pirabas Formation of coastal...
siltstones and mudstones. The Jimol Formation overlies the Uitpa Formation and is overlain by the CastilletesFormation. The age has been estimated to be...
Frías Formation (Miocene) along the Alto Río Cisnes, Aisén, Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile 17. 57–87. Accessed 2017-10-21. CastilletesFormation Amson...
Tordillo, Neuquén. Ameghiniana 30. 361–381. Accessed 2019-02-27. CastilletesFormation Amson, Eli; Juan D. Carrillo, and Carlos Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene...
conglomeratic beds with high fossil content. The Ware Formation overlies the CastilletesFormation and is overlain by Quaternary alluvium. The age has been...
the basement (Jarara Schist) and is overlain by the Siamaná and CastilletesFormations with a high angle unconformity. The age has been estimated to be...
species Neodolodus colombianus from the CastilletesFormation and the La Victoria and Villavieja Formations of the Honda Group. The type species N. colombianus...
Miocene Jimol Formation and for the early/middle Miocene CastilletesFormation in Colombia, and from the Oligo-Miocene boundary Pirabas Formation of coastal...
are described from the Salt Wash Member of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Utah, United States) by Raisanen & Hasiotis (2018), who name new ichnotaxa...
The Macanal Formation or Macanal Shale (Spanish: (Formación) Lutitas de Macanal, Kilm, K1m) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense...
Davis (2015). "Tribosphenic mammals from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Montana and Wyoming". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (3): e920848...
middle Miocene freshwater fish fossil fauna is described from the CastilletesFormation (Colombia) by Ballen et al. (2021), report the presence of members...
The Hondita Formation (Spanish: Formación Hondita, Ksh) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the Upper Magdalena Valley (VSM) and surrounding Central...
from the Middle Paleocene Cerrejón Formation of the Cesar-Ranchería Basin in northeastern Colombia. The formation is dated at around 60 to 57 million...
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