Swan Cay Formation Explained

Swan Cay Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Early Pleistocene
Period:	Gelasian
Prilithology:	Sandstone
Otherlithology:	Grainstone
Namedfor:	Swan Cay
Region:	Bocas del Toro
Unitof:	Bocas del Toro Group

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

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 .

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Bocas%20del%20Toro&formation=Swan%20Cay&group_formation_member=Swan%20Cay Swan Cay Formation
2. Landau & Vermeij, 2012
3. Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2016