Also known as NMB Loc. 18716

Where: Bocas, Panama (9.0° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° N, 81.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NN11 nannofossil zone, Bocas del Toro Group, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: the Shark Hole Point Fm conformably overlies the Nancy Point Fm and is overlain by an unnamed sequence of volcaniclastics. AGE: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 5.3-3.5 Ma, Early Pliocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 3.5-3.6 Ma corresponding to nannofossil stage NN15. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: 1167 m in section 15 of Collins et al. (1999).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, A. Heitz et al., 19.9.1995. REPOSITORY: 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135839: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.11.2012

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