Photos • Location
| Shark Hole Point Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Zanclean- Piacenzian | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Bocas del Toro Group |
| Underlies | Escudo de Veraguas Formation |
| Overlies | Nancy Point Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Siltstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 9°00′N 81°42′W / 9.0°N 81.7°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 9°18′N 81°18′W / 9.3°N 81.3°W |
| Region | Bocas del Toro |
| Country | 
Panama |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Shark Hole Point |
  Shark Hole Point Formation (Panama) | |
The Shark Hole Point Formation is a geologic formation in Bocas del Toro Province of northwestern Panama. The siltstones preserve fossils dating back to the Pliocene period. [1]
- ^ Shark Hole Point Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Schwarzhans & Aguilera, 2013
- Schwarzhans, Werner; Aguilera, Órangel (2013), "Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America", Palaeo Ichthyologica, 13: 83–150, retrieved 2019-02-09