Also known as NMB Loc. 17822

Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Cayo Agua Fm is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999); direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91901: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.10.2009, edited by Austin Hendy

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