The Canoa Formation is a Piacenzian to Calabrian (Chapadmalalan to Uquian in the SALMA classification) geologic formation in Ecuador. The sandstones were deposited in a coastal environment.[1] The formation is correlated to the Charco Azul Formation of western Panama and southeastern Costa Rica.[2]
| Canoa Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Piacenzian-Calabrian (Chapadmalalan-Uquian) ~ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 1°06′S 80°54′W / 1.1°S 80.9°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 1°12′S 80°30′W / 1.2°S 80.5°W |
| Region | Manabí & Santa Elena Provinces |
| Country |  Ecuador |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Canoa |
  Canoa Formation (Ecuador) | |
Fossil content
editThe formation has provided bivalve, gastropod, crustacean, echinoid and scaphopod fossils and vertebrates of:
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Canoa Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Charco Azul Formation at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
edit- G. Bianucci, C. Di Celma, W. Landini and J. Buckeridge. 2006. Palaeoecology and taphonomy of an extraordinary whale barnacle accumulation from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ecuador. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242:326-342
- H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79