Hodges Hill: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Panama
collected by A. Rincon & U. Denetclaw 2009-2011

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Hastings et al. 2013
Numerous teeth (<1cm) - UF specimens
Centenariosuchus gilmorei n. gen., n. sp. Hastings et al. 2013
Hastings et al. 2013
UF 262800 - holotype (partial skull including braincase, dorsal skull table, both quadrate condyles, frontal, and two isolated teeth. Also associated were a cervical vertebra and two partial osteoderms); paratype: UF 245503 (left premaxilla and partial right maxilla, including five teeth in situ); probable that the holotype and paratype are from the same individual; referred material: UF 281065 (dentary)
cf. Centenariosuchus gilmorei Hastings et al. 2013
Hastings et al. 2016
UF 280923, 280257 and 280256
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
"Cynorca" occidentale Woodburne 1969
recombined as Tedfordhyus occidentalis
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Paratoceras coatesi Rincón et al. 2015
Rincón et al. 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.0° North, 79.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.4° North, 77.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cucaracha
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: early Hemingfordian in age, from the early Miocene (MacFadden et al. 2014).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Normally graded, poorly to subrounded matrix-supported granule conglomerates
Environment:crevasse splay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. Rincon & U. Denetclaw Collection dates:2009-2011
Metadata
Also known as:Hodges Microsite
Database number:105889
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion, C. Jaramillo Enterer:M. Shalap, M. Uhen, J. Carrillo, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-02-26 16:23:09 Last modified:2016-06-17 07:53:50
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-26 16:23:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35395. B. J. MacFadden, M. X. Kirby, A. Rincon, C. Montes, S. Moron, N. Strong, and C. Jaramillo. 2010. Extinct peccary "Cynorca" occidentale (Tayassuidae, Tayassuinae) from the Miocene of Panama and correlations to North America. Journal of Paleontology 84(2):288-298 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

46370 A. K. Hastings, J. I. Bloch, C. A. Jaramillo, A. F. Rincon, and B. J. Macfadden. 2013. Systematics and biogeography of crocodylians from the Miocene of Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2):239-263 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59430 A. K. Hastings, M. Reisser, and T. M. Scheyer. 2016. Character evolution and the origin of Caimaninae (Crocodylia) in the New World Tropics: new evidence from the Miocene of Panama and Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
64839 A. F. Rincón, J. I. Bloch, B. J. MacFadden and C. A. Jaramillo. 2015. New early Miocene Protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e970688 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]