Also known as USGS 6671; W119c

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emperador Limestone Member (Culebra Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Emperador Limestone Member of the La Boca Formation. Orginally placed in Caimito, but emended by Woodring (1970), and then Kirby et al. (2009). AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Upper limestone bed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by MacDonald in 1913; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: D.F. MacDonald, 1913. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145564: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.06.2013

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