Also known as NMB Loc. 17859; 88-41-01
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 80.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nancy Point Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: the Nancy Point Fm is conformable with the Tobabe Fm below and the Shark Hole Point Fm above. AGE: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 8.2-5.6 Ma, Late Miocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 6.5-5.6 Ma. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 1474 m in section 12 of Collins et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, carbonaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung et al. in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 6/6/88. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135887: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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