PPP 3221 (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.2° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 78.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Toro Point Member (Chagres Sandstone Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep-water; silty sandstone

• upper bathyal
• massive, homogeneous, fine-grained, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Schwarzhans and O. Aguilera. 2013. Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America. Paleo Ichthyologica 13:83-150 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219220: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.03.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Batrachoidiformes - Batrachoididae
"Diaphus pedemontanus" = Porichthys pedemontanus
"Diaphus pedemontanus" = Porichthys pedemontanus Robba 1970 toadfish
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Diaphus multiserratus Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish
Myctophum degraciai Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish