Cayo Agua Formation

The Cayo Agua Formation is a geologic formation in Panama. It preserves fossils dating back to the Pliocene period.[1]

Cayo Agua Formation
Stratigraphic range: Zanclean-Piacenzian
TypeFormation
Unit ofBocas del Toro Group
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherSiltstone
Location
RegionBocas del Toro
Country Panama
Type section
Named forCayo Agua

Fossil content
  • Aphera trophis[2]
  • Cancellaria axelolssoni, C. isabelae[2]
  • Diaphus depressifrons[3]
  • Umbrina bananensis, U. sublima[4]

See also

References
  1. Cayo Agua Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. Landau et al., 2012
  3. Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2013
  4. Aguilera et al., 2016

Bibliography
  • Orangel A. Aguilera; Werner Schwarzhans; Philippe Béarez (2016). "Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America". Palaeo Ichthyologica. 14: 7–90.
  • Bernard Landau; Richard E. Petit; Carlos M. Da Silva (2012). "The Family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas Del Toro Region, Panama, with the description of seven new species". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (2): 311–339. doi:10.1666/11-070.1.
  • Werner Schwarzhans; Orangel Aguilera (2013). "Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America". Palaeo Ichthyologica. 13: 83–150.


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