Where: Panama, Panama (9.1° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 77.5° W)

When: Chucunaque Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• From the text "In much of the Darien Province, the Chucunaque Formation of Shelton (1952) is Messinian in age (7.1–5.6 Ma), although Coates et al. (2004) suggested that it could be older than 9.4 Ma in the western part of their study area on the basis of calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. This age is consistent with 87Sr/86Sr dates of 10–9.5 Ma derived from calcerous Lindapectin shells that were deposited in association with the chondrichthyan remains"

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, silty, sandy lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: V. J. Perez, C. Pimiento, A. Hendy, G. González-Barba, G. Hubbell and B. J. MacFadden. 2017. Late Miocene chondrichthyans from Lago Bayano, Panama: Functional diversity, environment and biogeography. Journal of Paleontology 91(3):512-547 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191987: authorized by Catalina Pimiento, entered by Jaime Villafana on 27.02.2018

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