Also known as NMB Loc. 18664

Where: Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• LITHOSRATIGRAPHY: From the Gatun Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Miocene in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle member in text; lower part of the Gatun Fm according to enterer.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Jung et al. in 1992; reposited in the NMB

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

• COLLECTORS: 5.1.1992. REPOSITORY: NMB.

Primary reference: O. Aguilera and D. R. de Aguilera. 1999. Bathymetric distribution of Miocene to Pleistocene Caribbean teleostean fishes from the coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357:251-269 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145521: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2013

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