Where: Costa Rica (8.0° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Penita Formation (Charco Azul Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Charco Azul Formation (Olsson 1942), which unconformably underlies the Armurelles Fm (Pleistocene). AGE: Pliocene as it is overlain by very different Pleistocene fauna Age supported by other sources, including Collins and Coates (1999). Correlated to Jama and Canoa Formations of Ecuador. STRAIGRAPHIC POSITION: About 300 ft above the basal sandstones.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, tuffaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by A.A. Olsson. REPOSITORIES: Collections reposited at PRI.

Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1942. Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 27(106):1-106 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66794: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.10.2006

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