Usage:
Tetuan Formation (PR*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures on east side of Route 140 just north of bridge where the highway crosses the Rio Limon, Barrio Tetuan, approx. 1 km east of the west edge of Florida quadrangle, Puerto Rico. Named from Barrio Tetuan (Nelson and Monroe, 1966).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
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