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)
~3.6–1.8 Ma
TypeGeological formation
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
Location
Coordinates1°06′S 80°54′W / 1.1°S 80.9°W / -1.1; -80.9
Approximate paleocoordinates1°12′S 80°30′W / 1.2°S 80.5°W / -1.2; -80.5
RegionManabí & Santa Elena Provinces
Country Ecuador
Type section
Named forCanoa
Canoa Formation is located in Ecuador
Canoa Formation
Canoa Formation (Ecuador)

Fossil content

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The formation has provided bivalve, gastropod, crustacean, echinoid and scaphopod fossils and vertebrates of:

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References

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Further reading

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  • 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