Galique Fm

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References:

• Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias (1991). The legend of the map places the formation in the Upper Eocene to Oligocene.
• Florida Museum (2011) states “Roger and Austin continued westward to the city of David, in Panama’s Chiriqui Province, where the PCP-PIRE team has recently begun paleontological reconnaissance. The rocks exposed to the east and north of David are of the Galique Fm, which appears to be intermediate in age between the Culebra Fm and Gatún Fm we have been studying in the Panama Canal. Courtesy of AES Panama we were able to access outcrops at Presa Baragon, north of Gualaca, and make large collections of rich mollusk and crab assemblages. The Galique Fm appears to have a diverse Early-Middle Miocene fauna, which has never been described, and therefore is a critical new element to Panama’s Neogene fossil record”.
• Making reference to a section of the western Azuero Peninsula, Perez-Consuegra et al. (2018) state “Mollusks associated with this section — Leopecten sp., Crassostrea sp., Ampullinopsis spenceri, Galeodea sp. and Ficus cf. F. carbasea and gastropod fossils of Naticidae, Muricidae, Antillophos aff. A. gatunensis, Conus sp., and Turridae — are similar to other faunas in Miocene strata from Panamá (e.g., Culebra Fm, Galique Fm, Gatún Fm and Chucunaque Fm; Hendy (2013)). The presence of Ampullinopsis spenceri in the lower part of the succession indicates an Early Miocene (Aquitanian – Burdigalian) age. Based on the data, we assign an Early Miocene age (Burdigalian?) to the sedimentary sequence in the Torio Beach”. See also Góngora-Blanco (2016) for a study on Torio Beach and Palo Seco Beach