NMB Loc. 17571 - Punta Judas, Puntarenas (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.5° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 82.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Middle Miocene; assigned to early middle Miocene by Seyfried et al. (1985). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but likely from a shallow marine siliciclastic facies.
• LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131019: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae