Also known as Gaillard Cut
Where: Panama, Panama (9.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cucaracha Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• early Hemingfordian in age, from the early Miocene (MacFadden et al., 2014).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta plain; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. F. Rincón, J. I. Bloch, B. J. MacFadden and C. A. Jaramillo. 2015. New early Miocene Protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e970688 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 191975: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 26.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Paratoceras coatesi n. sp.
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