Also known as NMB Loc. 17622; 87-09-03

Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 81.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NN15 nannofossil zone, Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The upper and lower contacts of the formation are not exposed. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), planktic foraminifera suggest 1.8 Ma near the top and 3.5 Ma at the base. PPP dataset indicates an age range between 3.6 and 3.5 Ma, nannofossil zone NN15.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, fine-grained, argillaceous sandstone and poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, argillaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/7/87. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),

Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61337: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006

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