Swan Cay Formation

Geologic formation in Panama
Swan Cay Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Pleistocene
TypeFormation
Unit ofBocas del Toro Group
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherGrainstone
Location
RegionBocas del Toro
Country Panama
Type section
Named forSwan Cay

The Swan Cay Formation is a geologic formation in Panama. It preserves fossils.[1]

Fossil content

  • Engina moinensis[2]
  • Ophidion pauxillicauda[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Swan Cay Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Landau & Vermeij, 2012
  3. ^ Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2016

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


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