Where: Herrera, Panama (7.9° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 80.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• A charcoal sample collected approximately 15 cm below an isolated Eremotherium vertebra in TP1 gave a date of 44,840 ± 700 14C yr B.P. This date is considered
•an average age because the charcoal sample was recovered under some of the
•fossils in clay that buried the main bone bed.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2001
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float)
Primary reference: G. A. Pearson. 2005. Late Pleistocene megafaunal deposits on the isthmus of Panama and their paleoenvironmental implications . Caribbean Journal of Science 41(1):1-13 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195192: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 26.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Trachemys sp. Agassiz 1857 slider | |
Mammalia | |
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate | |
Cuvieronius tropicus Cope 1884 gomphothere |