Moin Formation Explained

Moin Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene
Period:	Gelasian
Otherlithology:	Mudstone, grainstone
Namedfor:	Moin
Region:	Limón Province
Unitof:	Limón Group
Subunits:	Empalme, Lomas del Mar, Middle & Santa Rosa Members
Overlies:	Río Banano Formation

The Moin Formation is a geologic formation in Costa Rica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene period.^[1]

Fossil content

• Cataetyx stringeri^[2]
• Engina moinensis^[3]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Costa Rica

References

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 .

Further reading

• S. D. Cairns. 1995. New records of azooxanthellate stony corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia and Stylasteridae) from the Neogene of Panama and Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3):533-550

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Moin&group_formation_member=Moin Moin Formation
2. Schwarzhand & Aguilera, 2016
3. Landau & Vermeij, 2012