Llano Hato (Pleistocene of Panama)

Where: Herrera, Panama (8.0° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• A date of 47,040 ± 900 14C yr B.P. (CAMS-78192) was obtained from a piece of charcoal

•found within the 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 195193: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 26.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Trachemys sp. Agassiz 1857 slider