Also known as NMB Loc. 18734

Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.1° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NN12-15 nannofossil zone, Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cayo Agua Formation, which is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. AGE: Early Pliocene (Zanclean) in text; Nannoplankton zone NN12-15; also contains the planktonic foraminifers Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 2 m in section 17 of Coates & Collins (1999).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jung & Heitz in 1995; reposited in the NMB

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

• COLLECTORS: P. Jung and A. Heitz, 23.9.1995. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),

Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136522: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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