Also known as PRI Acc. 1267; GCH-1

Where: Panama (9.2° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gatuncillo Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: In Madden basin, the Gatuncillo Formation is overlain by Caimato Formation and overlies Cretaceous basement. The thickness of the foramtion is difficult to estimate, but not more than 300 m. AGE: Late Eocene, on the basis of biostratigraphy.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Pitt; reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: B. & L. Pitt. REPOSITORIES: PRI, Ithaca.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82153: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2008

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