Tonosí Formation
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| type = Formation
| age = Priabonian (Chadronian)
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| period = Priabonian
| prilithology = Sandstone
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| region = Los Santos Province
| country = Panama
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The Tonosí Formation is a geologic formation in Panama. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period (Priabonian).[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Tonos%ED&group_formation_member=Tonos%ED Tonosí Formation] at Fossilworks.org
Fossil content
Among others, the formation has provided fossils of:
See also
References
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= Bibliography =
- {{citation |last=Woodring |first=W.P |year=1973 |title=Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and Adjoining Parts of Panama - 306E Description of Tertiary Mollusks (Additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae) |url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0306e/report.pdf |publisher=USGS |pages=1–128 |accessdate=2019-02-09}}
Further reading
- A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1939. Aturias from the Eocene of Panama. Journal of Paleontology 13(1):77-79
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