Swan Cay Formation

Swan Cay Formation
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

The Swan Cay Formation is a geologic formation in Panama. It preserves fossils. ^[1]

Fossil content

• Engina moinensis ^[2]
• Ophidion pauxillicauda ^[3]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Panama

References

1. Swan Cay Formation at Fossilworks.org
2. Landau & Vermeij, 2012
3. Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2016

Bibliography

• 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