Also known as PPP# 3391

Where: Esmeraldas, Ecuador (1.1° N, 79.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Angostura Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• The Angostura Formation is Late Miocene age (planktic foraminiferal zone N. 16). It is apparently the Ecuadorian equivalent of the Gatun Formation of Panama. The formation is largely barren, but in a few places there are lenses or interbeds filled with finely preserved fossils. Overlies the Viche Formation, and is overlain by the lower Onzole Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jun al. in 1999; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: P. Jung, A. Heitz, L. Collins et al., 11.6.1999. REPOSITORY: NMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136317: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.11.2012

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