Where: Darien, Panama (8.2° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tuira Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Tuira Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene, in text; subsequent publications suggest late Miocene or early Pliocene age; Coates et al. (2004) suggests a Tortonian age (11.2-8.3 Ma). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Smithsonian (USNM)

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136993: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.12.2012

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