Usage:
Cotorra Tuff (PR*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Santonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: roadcut on Highway 559, about 1 km west of Quebrada La Cotorra, (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 151,660 E.; 35,930 N.), Orocovis quadrangle, Puerto Rico (Briggs, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
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