Also known as NMB Loc. 17835

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: NN17-NN18 nannofossil zone, Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The upper and lower contacts of the formation are not exposed. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), not specified to Early or Late Pliocene; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999); age range also provided by Bybell (1999).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 91912: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.10.2009, edited by Austin Hendy

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