Swan Cay Formation

{{short description|Geologic formation in Panama}}

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| age = Early Pleistocene

| period = Gelasian

| prilithology = Sandstone

| otherlithology = Grainstone

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| region = Bocas del Toro

| country = Panama

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The Swan Cay Formation is a geologic formation in Panama. It preserves fossils.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Bocas%20del%20Toro&formation=Swan%20Cay&group_formation_member=Swan%20Cay Swan Cay Formation] at Fossilworks.org

Fossil content

See also

References

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= Bibliography =

  • {{Cite journal|author1=Bernard Landau |author2=Geerat J. Vermeij |year=2012 |title=The genera Engina and Ameranna nov. gen. (Mollusca: Gastropoda, Buccinoidea, Buccinidae, Pisaniinae) from the Western Atlantic Neogene |journal=Cainozoic Research |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=121–133 }}
  • {{citation |last1=Schwarzhans |first1=Werner |last2=Aguilera |first2=Órangel |year=2016 |title=Otoliths of the Ophidiiformes from the Neogene of tropical America |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301301826 |journal=Palaeo Ichthyologica |volume=14 |pages=91–124 |accessdate=2019-02-09}}

Category:Geologic formations of Panama

Category:Pleistocene Panama

Category:Paleontology in Panama

Category:Sandstone formations

Category:Reef deposits

Formations

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