Contractor’s Hill (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama City, Panama (9.0° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, tuffaceous, green, yellow, sandy, conglomeratic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected in 1956

Primary reference: B. J. MacFadden. 2006. North American Miocene Land Mammals from Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):720-734 [B. Beatty/B. Beatty/J. Ceballos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144881: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juliana Ceballos on 19.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

• This entry was made to document smaller parts of this collection
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Floridaceras whitei
Floridaceras whitei Wood 1964 rhinoceros
USNM 171001 (distal fragment of a large L rhino femur)