Sample 16, Locality A, La Boca Fm. (Miocene of Panama)

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
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Angiospermae
 Gentianales - Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 coffee
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Tetrameristaceae
Pelliciera sp. Planchon and Triana 1862
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Alchornea sp. Swartz 1788 spurge
 Malpighiales - Rhizophoraceae
Rhizophora sp. Linnaeus 1753 true mangrove
 Malpighiales - Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglandaceae indet. Perleb 1818
Polypodiopsida
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Cyathea sp. Smith 1793 scaly tree fern
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Pteris sp. Linnaeus 1753
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Selaginella sp. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Attalea
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Attalea sp. Kunth 1815