Also known as NMB Loc. 17857

Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 80.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nancy Point Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Nancy Point Fm is conformable with the Tobabe Fm below and the Shark Hole Point Fm above. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 8.2-5.6 Ma, Late Miocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 6.5-5.6 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, carbonaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 6/6/88. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),

Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61348: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006

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