Also known as Lirio North
Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: upper Member (Culebra Formation), Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• early Hemingfordian in age, from the early Miocene (MacFadden et al., 2014).
•Bourque 2022: Occurrence.—Early Miocene, Arikareean NALMA (Ar 3), Las Cascadas Formation, ~21 Ma (Tedford et al., 2004; Buchs et al., 2019)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: M. D. Uhen, A. G. Coates, C. A. Jaramillo, C. Montes, C. Pimiento, A. Rincon, N. Strong and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2010. Marine mammals from the Miocene of Panama. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 30(3-4):167-175 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 96702: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.06.2010, edited by Philip Mannion, Juan Carrillo and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylia indet.2 Owen 1842 crocodilian UF 244336 (isolated partial maxilla of a small individual); UF 244332 (partially preserved right distal humerus) and UF 244331 (isolated osteoderm)
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Culebrasuchus mesoamericanus n. gen. n. sp.2 Hastings et al. 2013 crocodilian UF 244434 - holotype (skull including left jugal, maxilla, partial premaxilla, right lacrimal and partial prefrontal, nearly complete left dentary with partial angular and surangular, anterior right dentary and partial right maxilla, braincase, 20 teeth in articulation, two additional associated teeth, and three cervical vertebrae)
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Forachelys woodi n. gen. n. sp.1
Forachelys woodi n. gen. n. sp.1 Bourque 2022 turtle Holotype.—UF 280569, anterior carapace and plastron (Figs. 3–5A, 6–8). Collected by Aaron R. Wood, 14 November, 2011. Paratype.—UF 280152, partial anterior carapace and plastral forelobe (Figs. 5B, 9–10). Collected by Aaron R. Wood, 4 May, 2012. Referred Specimens.—UF 267054, entoplastron (Fig. 11G–H); UF 267127, right P7–8 fused (Fig. 11D–F); UF 267136, right P1; UF 275212, right P7; UF 275306, right P7 (subadult); UF 275421, right P6–7 fused; UF 280422, left P3; UF 280570, partial left hypoplastron (Fig. 11A–C); UF 532009, right P3–4 fused.
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Dugongidae indet. Gray 1821 dugong | |
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Paratoceras orarius n. sp.4
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