Where: Panama (9.3° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 79.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Hope Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
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 136286: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Monoplex comptus Adams 1855 triton shell |