Isla Colón Formation

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| type = Formation

| age = Early Pleistocene

| period = Calabrian

| prilithology = Limestone

| otherlithology = Sandstone

| namedfor = Colón Island

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| region = Bocas del Toro

| country = Panama

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| unitof = Bocas del Toro Group

| subunits = Ground Creek & La Gruta Members

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The Isla Colón Formation is an Early Pleistocene geologic formation in the Bocas del Toro Province of northwestern Panama. It preserves coral fossils. The formation, part of the Bocas del Toro Group, comprises limestones and sandstones deposited in a reefal environment.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Bocas%20del%20Toro&formation=Isla%20Colon&group_formation_member=Isla%20Colon Isla Colón Formation] at Fossilworks.org{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Bocas-del-Toro-Isla-Colon-Panama-Sitio-Drago-location_fig1_258019920 |title=Archaeological investigations provide late Holocene baseline ecological data for Bocas del Toro, Panama on ResearchGate}}

Fossil content

See also

References

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= Bibliography =

  • {{cite journal |author1=Ann F. Budd |author2=James D. Woodell |author3=Danwei Huang |author4=James S. Klaus |year=2019 |title=Evolution of the Caribbean subfamily Mussinae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Faviidae): transitions between solitary and colonial forms |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=17 |issue= 18|pages= 1581–1616|doi=10.1080/14772019.2018.1541932 |bibcode=2019JSPal..17.1581B |s2cid=92225764 }}

Further reading

  • A. F. Budd, K. G. Johnson, T. A. Stemann and B. H. Tompkins. 1999. Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357:119-158

Category:Geologic formations of Panama

Category:Pleistocene Panama

Category:Limestone formations

Category:Reef deposits

Formations