Also known as NMB Loc. 18735
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-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); also contains the planktonic foraminifers Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 200 m in section 19 of Coates & Collins (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, silty sandstone
•LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text, but known to be poorly lithified by enterer; figured specimens appear to have been cleaned of sediment.
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Heitz in 1995; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: P. Jung and A. Heitz, 25.9.1995. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
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 135824: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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