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 | |
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate | |
Reptilia | |
Trachemys sp. Agassiz 1857 slider |