Río Banano Formation
{{Short description|Geologic formation in Costa Rica}}
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| name = Río Banano Formation
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| type = Formation
| age = Middle Miocene-Piacenzian
| period = Messinian
| prilithology = Sandstone, siltstone
| otherlithology = Claystone
| namedfor = Banano River
| namedby =
| region = Limón Province
| country = {{CRI}}
| coordinates = {{coord|9.9|N|83.1|W|display=inline,title}}
| paleocoordinates = {{coord|9.8|N|83.3|W|display=inline}}
| unitof = Limón Group
| subunits =
| underlies = Moin Formation
| overlies = Uscari Formation
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| map = {{Location map+ | Costa Rica
| relief = 1
| width = 250
| float = center
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{{Location map~ | Costa Rica
| lat_deg = 9.9
| lon_deg = -83.1
| mark = Yellow pog.svg
| marksize = 12
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The Río Banano Formation is a geologic formation in Costa Rica of the Limón Group. It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle Miocene to Piacenzian period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Rio%20Banano&group_formation_member=Rio%20Banano Río Banano Formation] at Fossilworks.org
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References
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= Bibliography =
- {{citation |last1=Aguilera |first1=Órangel A. |last2=Schwarzhans |first2=Werner |last3=Béarez |first3=Philippe |year=2016 |title=Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301301677 |journal=Palaeo Ichthyologica |volume=14 |pages=7–90 |accessdate=2019-02-09}}
- {{citation |last1=Landau |first1=Bernard |last2=Petit |first2=Richard E. |last3=Da Silva |first3=Carlos M. |year=2012 |title=New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with Eleven New Species |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256210894 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=86 |issue=6 |pages=907–930 |doi=10.1666/12-043R.1 |accessdate=2019-02-09}}
- {{citation |first1=César A. |last1=Laurito |first2=Cristian |last2=Calvo |first3=Ana L. |last3=Valerio |first4=Alejandro |last4=Calvo |first5=Rafael |last5=Chacón |year=2014 |title=Ictiofauna del Mioceno Inferior de la localidad de Pacuare de Tres Equis, Formación Río Banano, provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica, y descripción de un nuevo género y una nueva especie de Scaridae |journal=Revista Geológica de América Central |volume=50 |issue=50 |pages=153–192 |doi=10.15517/rgac.v0i50.15121 |doi-access=free}}
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Category:Geologic formations of Costa Rica