Escobar Hill: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Paratoceras coatesi n. sp.
Rincón et al. 2015
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| Holotype—UF 223585 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama | State/province: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.0° North, 79.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.4° North, 77.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| 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: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early Hemingfordian in age, from the early Miocene (MacFadden et al., 2014). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: highly fossiliferous sand unit. It consists of dark greenish brown, slightly silty, fine-grained, well-sorted quartz sand with much fine-grained light green glauconite and abundant shell grit. | |
| Environment: | delta plain |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Gaillard Cut | ||
| Database number: | 191975 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | J. Carrillo | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-02-26 09:57:49 | Last modified: | 2018-02-26 09:57:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-02-26 09:57:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |