Centenario Bridge: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Hastings et al. 2013 | |||||||||
UF 259874 (right proximal radius) | ||||||||||
cf. Centenariosuchus gilmorei
Hastings et al. 2013
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Hastings et al. 2013 | |||||||||
UF 245593 (nearly complete right angular) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Podocnemidae indet.
(Cope 1868)
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Cadena et al. 2012 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
original and current combination Podocnemididae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Rhinoclemmys sp.
Fitzinger 1835
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Cadena et al. 2012 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
Rhinoclemmys panamaensis n. sp.
Cadena et al. 2012
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Cadena et al. 2012 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Cadena et al. 2012 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Staurotypus moschus n. sp.
Cadena et al. 2012
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Cadena et al. 2012 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitherium clarencei
Simpson 1932
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MacFadden 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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"Cynorca" occidentale
Woodburne 1969
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recombined as Tedfordhyus occidentalis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Paratoceras coatesi
Rincón et al. 2015
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Rincón et al. 2015 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Panama |
Coordinates: | 9.0° North, 79.6° 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: | 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
Database number: | 89444 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion, J. Marcot, C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion, J. Marcot, J. Carrillo |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-05-20 08:11:36 | Last modified: | 2016-06-17 07:54:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-05-20 08:11:36 |
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:
47924 | E. Cadena, J. R. Bourque, A. F. Rincon, J. I. Bloch, C. A. Jaramillo and B. J. MacFadden. 2012. New turtles (Chelonia) from the late Eocene through Late Miocene of the Panama Canal Basin. Journal of Paleontology 86(3):539-557 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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] | |
51631 | B. J. MacFadden. 2009. Three-Toed Browsing Horse Anchitherium (Equidae) From the Miocene of Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 83(3):489-492 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
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] |