Small Plantain Cay: Messinian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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? Balaenopteroidea indet.
Gray 1868
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.1° North, 81.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tobabe |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: sandstone pebble conglomerate | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: tropical | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 96701 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-06-28 08:40:28 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2010-09-28 08:40:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32976. | 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] |