The Swan Cay Formation is a geologic formation in Panama. It preserves fossils.[1]
Swan Cay Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Early Pleistocene | |
Type | Formation |
Unit of | Bocas del Toro Group |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Other | Grainstone |
Location | |
Region | Bocas del Toro |
Country | Panama |
Type section | |
Named for | Swan Cay |
Fossil content
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Swan Cay Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Landau & Vermeij, 2012
- ^ Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2016
Bibliography
edit- 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