Also known as USGS 18844; field #213a

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Caimito Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• From middle member. Three members of the Caimito Formation are recognized in the Gatun Lake area: lower, middle, and upper. The lower member is predominantly conglomerate and tuffaceous sandstone; the middle member consists of tuffaceous sandstone; the upper member comprises tuff and tuffaceous siltstone. The thickness of the Caimito Formation in the Gatun Lake area is around 300 m or more. Larger foraminifera support a late Oligocene age; corals favor a late Oligocene age, although early Miocene is unlikely; molluscs also confirm an Oligocene age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Woodring (1954). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42575: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.08.2004

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