Also known as YPA017

Where: Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by C. Pimiento, A. Hendy, A. Rincon; reposited in the FLMNH, UNSM

• Also from Shuler Museum of Paleontology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Primary reference: M. D. Uhen, A. G. Coates, C. A. Jaramillo, C. Montes, C. Pimiento, A. Rincon, N. Strong and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2010. Marine mammals from the Miocene of Panama. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 30(3-4):167-175 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96700: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.06.2010, edited by Catalina Pimiento

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