Also known as PJ 0956

Where: Ecuador (0.9° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 77.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Borbon Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Borbon Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Esmeraldas Fm (Pliocene). AGE: Middle Miocene, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy; nannofossil zones N11-13; planktonic zones N13-N14. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jung in 1971; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: P. Jung, 1971. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 134904: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.10.2012

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