Also known as PPP# 1762
Where: Panama (8.3° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 81.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Armuelles Formation (Charco Azul Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Armuelles Formation. AGE: Pleistocene, according to Ingle (1985) on the basis of microfossils; direct date estimated based on other collections from the Armuelles Formation. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; green lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown, but circa 1984-1985. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (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 130891: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Strombina (Recurvina) recurva Sowerby 1832 snail
Sincola (Dorsina) gibberula Sowerby 1832 snail | |
Linatella caudata Gmelin 1791 triton shell | |
Distorsio decussata Valenciennes 1832 snail | |
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell | |
Semicassis centiquadrata Valenciennes 1832 snail |