Stratigraphic range: Mid-Late Oxfordian ~158–156 Ma
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Type
Geological formation
Sub-units
Pan de Azúcar, Zacarías, Pimienta & Jagua Vieja Members
Underlies
Guasasa Formation
Overlies
San Cayetano Formation
Thickness
160 m (520 ft)
Lithology
Primary
Shale, limestone
Location
Coordinates
22°42′N83°36′W / 22.7°N 83.6°W / 22.7; -83.6
Region
Pinar del Río Province
Country
Cuba
Extent
Sierra de los Órganos, Sierra del Rosario
Type section
Named for
Jagua
Jagua Formation (Cuba)
The Jagua Formation is a Late Jurassic (middle to late Oxfordian) geologic formation in the Sierra de los Órganos and Sierra del Rosario mountain ranges in Pinar del Río Province, western Cuba.[1] Plesiosaur, pliosaur, pterosaur,[2] metriorhynchid, turtle and dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata.
The JaguaFormation is a Late Jurassic (middle to late Oxfordian) geologic formation in the Sierra de los Órganos and Sierra del Rosario mountain ranges...
was found in middle-late Oxfordian-age (Late Jurassic) rocks of the JaguaFormation of western Cuba. Gallardosaurus is believed to be evolutionarily connected...
85 m (7.3–9.4 ft). A series of neck vertebrae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation indicate a pliosaur, probably Pliosaurus, that may have been up to 14...
vignalensis, which is now considered undiagnostic, hails from the JaguaFormation of western Cuba. In 2016, there was a report about a fragmentary Cryptoclidus...
rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the middle-late Oxfordian age Upper Jurassic JaguaFormation of Pinar del Río, western Cuba. Its remains were collected but not...
Sedimentation due to the tectonic activity continued into the Oligocene. The JaguaFormation in western Cuba has yielded numerous fossils of marine reptiles and...
rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the middle-late Oxfordian-age Upper Jurassic JaguaFormation of Pinar del Río, Cuba. The genus was named in 2004 by Zulma Gasparini...
Vinialesaurus is a genus of plesiosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) JaguaFormation of Pinar del Río, Cuba. The type species is Vinialesaurus caroli, first...
The Guasasa Formation is a geologic formation in Cuba. It is Tithonian to Early Valanginian in age and contains fossils of ammonites. It primarily consists...
unnamed specimen classified as Geosaurus was found in the Oxfordian JaguaFormation of Cuba, though further study has shown this species to be more closely...
James Ross Island, Antarctica (Ameghino Formation) †A. arawaki Brito, 1997 - Oxfordian of Cuba (JaguaFormation) †A. crassus Woodward, 1890 - Bathonian...
org Artemisa Formation at Fossilworks.org JaguaFormation at Fossilworks.org San Cayetano Formation at Fossilworks.org La Isabella Formation at Fossilworks...
; Liu, X.-M.; Li, D. (2009). "Constraints on the age of the Tuchengzi Formation by LA-ICP-MS dating in northern Hebei-western Liaoning, China". Science...
(Bathonian) of North Dakota (Sundance Formation) †C. deani Gregory, 1923 - Oxfordian of Cuba (JaguaFormation) †C. ferox Winkler, 1862- Late Jurassic...
; Iturralde-Vinent, M. (2001). "A new pleurodiran turtle from the JaguaFormation (Oxfordian) of western Cuba" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology. 75 (4):...
needed] Germany, Argentina (Vaca Muerta), Cuba (JaguaFormation), and Mexico (La Caja and Pimienta Formations). and from the earliest Cretaceous (lower Berriasian)...
known from an isolated metacarpal from the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) JaguaFormation (Cuba) is published online by Apesteguía, Izquierdo & Iturralde-Vinent...
that a Morrison pterosaur has been found at more than one site in the formation. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past:...
D.J. Varricchio. 2004. A new dromaeosaurid from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada. In: Feathered Dragons: Studies...
yvakue ("fallen fruit or fruit peel"), Acuata, Arauca, Tibacuy, Mocoa, El Jagua, Iguambi, Itagüí ("from the rocks"), Yacare, Teranguara, Chachagüí, Puente...
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