Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moin Formation, Piacenzian to Piacenzian (3.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• "Probably equivalent to Gatun formation. Miocene series" (now assigned to the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene Moin Formation; Todd & Collins, 2005)

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by H. Pittier; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135455: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.10.2012

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