Also known as NMB Loc. 18374; 93-13-01
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: NN13-15 nannofossil zone, Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cayo Agua Formation, which is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. AGE: Early Pliocene (Zanclean) in text; contains the planktonic foraminifer Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 53 m in section 19 of Coates & Collins (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, silty sandstone
•LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text, but known to be poorly lithified by enterer; figured specimens appear to have been cleaned of sediment.
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Heitz in 1993; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: P. Jung and A. Heitz, 8/3/93. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135863: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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