Also known as NMB Loc. 18686

Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 81.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The upper and lower contacts of the formation are not exposed. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), not specified to Early or Late Pliocene; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999); age range also provided by Bybell (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From a height of 10 m in section 10 of Collins et al. (1999).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, fine-grained, argillaceous sandstone and poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, argillaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jung et al in 1996; reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, A. Heitz, J. Todd et al., 14.9.19959/14/95. 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 135876: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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