Escobar Hill (Miocene of Panama)

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

• highly fossiliferous sand unit. It consists of dark greenish brown, slightly silty, fine-grained, well-sorted quartz sand with much fine-grained light green glauconite and abundant shell grit.

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Paratoceras coatesi n. sp. Rincón et al. 2015 protoceratid
Holotype—UF 223585