Centenario Bridge: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Hastings et al. 2013
UF 259874 (right proximal radius)
cf. Centenariosuchus gilmorei Hastings et al. 2013
Hastings et al. 2013
UF 245593 (nearly complete right angular)
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Podocnemidae indet. (Cope 1868)
Cadena et al. 2012 1 specimen
original and current combination Podocnemididae
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Rhinoclemmys sp. Fitzinger 1835
Cadena et al. 2012 10 specimens
Rhinoclemmys panamaensis n. sp. Cadena et al. 2012
Cadena et al. 2012 4 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Cadena et al. 2012 3 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Staurotypus moschus n. sp. Cadena et al. 2012
Cadena et al. 2012 1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium clarencei Simpson 1932
MacFadden 2009
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
"Cynorca" occidentale Woodburne 1969
recombined as Tedfordhyus occidentalis
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Paratoceras coatesi Rincón et al. 2015
Rincón et al. 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.0° North, 79.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.4° North, 77.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cucaracha
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: early Hemingfordian in age, from the early Miocene (MacFadden et al., 2014).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: highly fossiliferous sand unit. It consists of dark greenish brown, slightly silty, fine-grained, well-sorted quartz sand with much fine-grained light green glauconite and abundant shell grit.
Environment:delta plain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:89444
Authorizer:M. Uhen, C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion, J. Marcot Enterer:M. Uhen, J. Marcot, J. Carrillo, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-05-20 08:11:36 Last modified:2016-06-17 07:54:45
Access level:the public Released:2009-05-20 08:11:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35395. B. J. MacFadden, M. X. Kirby, A. Rincon, C. Montes, S. Moron, N. Strong, and C. Jaramillo. 2010. Extinct peccary "Cynorca" occidentale (Tayassuidae, Tayassuinae) from the Miocene of Panama and correlations to North America. Journal of Paleontology 84(2):288-298 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

47924 E. Cadena, J. R. Bourque, A. F. Rincon, J. I. Bloch, C. A. Jaramillo and B. J. MacFadden. 2012. New turtles (Chelonia) from the late Eocene through Late Miocene of the Panama Canal Basin. Journal of Paleontology 86(3):539-557 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
46370 A. K. Hastings, J. I. Bloch, C. A. Jaramillo, A. F. Rincon, and B. J. Macfadden. 2013. Systematics and biogeography of crocodylians from the Miocene of Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2):239-263 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59430 A. K. Hastings, M. Reisser, and T. M. Scheyer. 2016. Character evolution and the origin of Caimaninae (Crocodylia) in the New World Tropics: new evidence from the Miocene of Panama and Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
51631 B. J. MacFadden. 2009. Three-Toed Browsing Horse Anchitherium (Equidae) From the Miocene of Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 83(3):489-492 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
64839 A. F. Rincón, J. I. Bloch, B. J. MacFadden and C. A. Jaramillo. 2015. New early Miocene Protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e970688 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]