Английская Википедия:Canoa Formation

Материал из Онлайн справочника
Перейти к навигацииПерейти к поиску

Шаблон:Infobox rockunit The Canoa Formation is a Piacenzian to Calabrian (Chapadmalalan to Uquian in the SALMA classification) geologic formation in Ecuador. The sandstones were deposited in a coastal environment.[1] The formation is correlated to the Charco Azul Formation of western Panama and southeastern Costa Rica.[2]

Fossil content

The formation has provided bivalve, gastropod, crustacean, echinoid and scaphopod fossils and vertebrates of:

See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

Further reading

  • G. Bianucci, C. Di Celma, W. Landini and J. Buckeridge. 2006. Palaeoecology and taphonomy of an extraordinary whale barnacle accumulation from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ecuador. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242:326-342
  • H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79