Also known as NMB Loc. 18390

Where: Colon, Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gatun Fm, which regionally overlies the Caimito Fm or Mesozoic basement. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle member of the Gatun Formatio according to the author; the enterer considers this to be the lower member of the Gatun Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, gray siltstone and unlithified, bioturbated sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Heitz in 1993; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Antoine Heitz, 8/11/93. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),

Primary reference: B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136014: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.11.2012

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