Also known as USGS 17685; field #111

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caraba Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Undifferentiated member. The formation is characterized by a unit of conglomerate and conglomeratic sandstone that has a thickness of between 75 and 100 metres. The conglomerate has been given the informal name, the "Caraba facies. The conglomerate is overlain by fossiliferous silty calcareous sandstone (localities 59 and 60)..

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, pebbly, tuffaceous, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Woodring (1949). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42581: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.08.2004

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