Small Plantain Cay (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 80.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tobabe Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; conglomerate

• tropical
• sandstone pebble conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96701: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -