Grand Bay Formation

Grand Bay Formation
Stratigraphic range: Middle Miocene
Type	Formation
Lithology
Primary	Tuff
Other	Sandstone
Location
Coordinates	12.4°N 61.4°W / 12.4; -61.4
Approximate paleocoordinates	12.1°N 61.1°W / 12.1; -61.1
Region	Carriacou
Country	Grenada
Grand Bay Formation (Grenada)

The Grand Bay Formation is a geologic formation in Grenada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle Miocene period.[1]

Fossil content

• Ophiocamax ventosa[2]
• Paragonaster(?) haldixoni[2]
• Torqueoliva[3]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Grenada

References

1. Grand Bay Formation at Fossilworks.org
2. Jagt et al., 2014
3. Landau, da Silva & Heitz, 2016

Bibliography

• John W. M. Jagt; Ben Thuy; Stephen K. Donovan; Sabine Stöhr; Roger W. Portell; Ron K. Pickerill; David A. T. Harper; William Lindsay; Trevor A. Jackson (2014). "A starfish bed in the Middle Miocene Grand Bay Formation of Carriacou, The Grenadines (West Indies)". Geological Magazine. 151 (3): 381–393. Bibcode:2014GeoM..151..381J. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000204. S2CID 54043578.
• Bernard Manuel Landau; Carlos Marques da Silva; Antoine Heitz (2016). "Systematics of the gastropods of the lower-middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela" (PDF). Bulletins of American Paleontology. 389–390: 1–581. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2019-02-05.

Further reading

• R. W. Portell, G. Hubbell, S. Donovan, D.A.T. Harper, and R. Pickerill. 2008. Miocene sharks in the Kendeace and Grand Bay formations of Carriacou, The Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 44(3):279-286