Río Banano Formation

Geologic formation in Costa Rica
Río Banano Formation is located in Costa Rica
Río Banano Formation
Río Banano Formation (Costa Rica)

The Río Banano Formation is a geologic formation in Costa Rica of the Limón Group. It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle Miocene to Piacenzian period.[1]

Fossil content

  • Aphera bananensis[2]
  • Isopisthus acer[3]
  • Pacuarescarus[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Río Banano Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Landau et al., 2012
  3. ^ Aguilera et al., 2016
  4. ^ Laurito et al., 2014

Bibliography

  • Aguilera, Órangel A.; Schwarzhans, Werner; Béarez, Philippe (2016), "Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America", Palaeo Ichthyologica, 14: 7–90, retrieved 2019-02-09
  • Landau, Bernard; Petit, Richard E.; Da Silva, Carlos M. (2012), "New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with Eleven New Species", Journal of Paleontology, 86 (6): 907–930, doi:10.1666/12-043R.1, retrieved 2019-02-09
  • Laurito, César A.; Calvo, Cristian; Valerio, Ana L.; Calvo, Alejandro; Chacón, Rafael (2014), "Ictiofauna del Mioceno Inferior de la localidad de Pacuare de Tres Equis, Formación Río Banano, provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica, y descripción de un nuevo género y una nueva especie de Scaridae", Revista Geológica de América Central, 50 (50): 153–192, doi:10.15517/rgac.v0i50.15121