Moin Formation

Costa Rican geologic formation
Moin Formation is located in Costa Rica
Moin Formation
Moin Formation (Costa Rica)

The Moin Formation is a geologic formation in Costa Rica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene period.[1]

Fossil content

  • Cataetyx stringeri[2]
  • Engina moinensis[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Moin Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Schwarzhand & Aguilera, 2016
  3. ^ Landau & Vermeij, 2012

Bibliography

  • Bernard Landau; Geerat J. Vermeij (2012). "The genera Engina and Ameranna nov. gen. (Mollusca: Gastropoda, Buccinoidea, Buccinidae, Pisaniinae) from the Western Atlantic Neogene". Cainozoic Research. 9 (1): 121–133.
  • Schwarzhans, Werner; Aguilera, Órangel (2016), "Otoliths of the Ophidiiformes from the Neogene of tropical America", Palaeo Ichthyologica, 14: 91–124, retrieved 2019-02-09

Further reading

  • S. D. Cairns. 1995. New records of azooxanthellate stony corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia and Stylasteridae) from the Neogene of Panama and Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3):533-550