Cartagena Hill (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cucaracha Formation, Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• early Hemingfordian in age, from the early Miocene (MacFadden et al., 2014).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142889: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.04.2013, edited by Juan Carrillo

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Paratoceras coatesi Rincón et al. 2015 protoceratid
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
UF 245506 (right second dorsal rib)