Also known as UF YPA089
Where: Colon, Panama (9.3° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 78.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Chagres Sandstone Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• late Miocene (latest Tortonian-early Messinian). Elsewhere in the paper, the authors describe the age as Tortonian.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: J. Velez-Juarbe, A. R. Wood, C. Gracia and A. J. W. Hendy. 2015. Evolutionary patterns among living and fossil kogiid sperm whales: Evidence from the Neogene of Central America. PLoS One 10(4):e0123909 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144795: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juliana Ceballos on 18.05.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Nanokogia isthmia n. gen. n. sp.
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