Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: La Boca Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; mudstone and siltstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: A. Graham. 1989. Studies in neotropical paleobotany. VII. The Lower Miocene communities of Panama - the La Boca Formation. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 76:50-66 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 32334: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 25.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Rubiaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 coffee | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Pelliciera sp. Planchon and Triana 1862 | |
Angiospermae | |
Alchornea sp. Swartz 1788 spurge | |
Rhizophora sp. Linnaeus 1753 true mangrove | |
Malpighiaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 | |
Juglandaceae indet. Perleb 1818 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cyathea sp. Smith 1793 scaly tree fern | |
Pteris sp. Linnaeus 1753 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Selaginella sp. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss | |
Dinophyceae | |
Attalea | |
Attalea sp. Kunth 1815 |