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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ecuador

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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ecuador.


List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

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Group Formation Period Notes
Cangahua Formation Late Pleistocene [1]
Tablazo Formation Late Pliocene-Late Pleistocene [2]
Jama Formation Pliocene-Early Pleistocene [3]
Canoa Formation Piacenzian-Calabrian [4]
Esmeraldas Formation Early Pliocene [5]
Daule Onzole Formation Early Pliocene [6][7]
Cachabi Formation Late Miocene-Early Pliocene [8]
Punta Gorda Formation Late Miocene-Early Pliocene [9]
Santiago Angostura Formation Late Miocene [10]
Picaderos Formation Late Miocene [11]
Borbón Formation Middle Miocene [12]
Santiago Facies Early-Mid Miocene [13]
Pebas Formation Aquitanian-Tortonian [14]
Letrero Formation Late Miocene [15]
Azogues Formation Middle Miocene [16]
Daule Formation Middle Miocene [17]
San Cayetano Formation Middle Miocene [18]
Nabón Iguincha Formation Middle Miocene [19]
Latrero Formation Middle Miocene [20]
Biblián Formation Miocene [21]
Viche Formation Langhian [22]
Progreso Progreso Formation Early-Mid Miocene [23][24]
Subibaja Dos Bocas Formation Chattian [25][26]
Posojra Formation Early-Late Oligocene [27]
Zapallo Formation Late Eocene [28]
Ancón Seca Formation Late Eocene [29]
Napo Upper Napo Formation Early Coniacian-Santonian [30]
Middle Napo Formation Turonian [31]
Lower Napo Formation Cenomanian [32]
Basal Napo Formation Albian [33][34]
Alamor Cazaderos Formation Albian-Cenomanian [35]
Ciano Formation Late Aptian-Early Albian [36]

See also

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References

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Further reading

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  • 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
  • Cadena, Edwin A.; Abella, Juan; Gregori, Maria D. (2017), "New findings of Pleistocene fossil turtles (Geoemydidae, Kinosternidae and Chelydridae) from Santa Elena Province, Ecuador", PeerJ, 5: e3215, doi:10.7717/peerj.3215, PMC 5401626, PMID 28439472
  • G. Cantalamessa, C. Di Celma, and L. Ragaini. 2005. Sequence stratigraphy of the Punta Ballena Member of the Jama Formation (Early Pleistocene, Ecuador): insights from integrated sedimentologic, taphonomic and paleoecologic analysis of molluscan shell concentrations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 216:1-25
  • P. F. Hasson and A. G. Fischer. 1986. Observations on the Neogene of Northwestern Ecuador. Micropaleontology 32(1):32-42
  • P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298
  • Lorenzo, Erica; Roca Beltrán, Wladimir Andrés; Martínez, Manuel; Morato, Antonio; Escandón Panchana, Paulo César; Álvarez Domínguez, Cristian Paul (2018), "Correlación geoquímica entre crudos y rocas del sistema petrolero de la península de Santa Elena y el golfo de Guayaquil" (PDF), Boletín de Geología, 40: 31–42, doi:10.18273/revbol.v40n1-2018002, retrieved 2018-10-01
  • A. A. Olsson. 1964. Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador
  • H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79
  • Ramírez Parrales, María Fernanda (2013), Registros de la deformación y del volcanismo en el dominio del antearco ecuatoriano: sedimentología y bioestratigrafía de la Formación Borbón (thesis) (PDF), Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, pp. 1–202, retrieved 2018-09-12
  • Romero Carrasco, Ana Iveth (2017), Marcas de herbivoría en hojas fósiles de las cuencas miocénicas del sur del Ecuador (BSc. thesis) (PDF), Universidad Central del Ecuador, pp. 1–39, retrieved 2017-10-26
  • Tanaka, Yoshihiro; Abella, Juan; Aguirre Fernández, Gabriel; Gregori, María; Fordyce, R. Ewan (2017), "A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador", PLoS ONE, 12 (12): e0188380, Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1288380T, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188380, PMC 5737981, PMID 29261688