Pina 1 (Miocene of Panama)

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
 Cetacea - Kogiidae
Nanokogia isthmia n. gen. n. sp.
Nanokogia isthmia n. gen. n. sp. Velez-Juarbe et al. 2015 pygmy sperm whale
UF 280000