Open-access Nuevos restos de un odontoceti fósil (mammalia: Cetacea, physeteroidea) para el mioceno tardío de Panamá, América Central

New fossil remains of an odontoceti (mammalia: Cetacea, physeteroidea) from the late miocene of Panama, Central America

A fragment of a crown and an isolated lower commissural tooth of a sperm whale of the Family Physetheridae are described. The dental remains were recovered from the upper bathyal sediments of the Chagres Forma tion (late Miocene), with a strong Pacific affinity in the locality of the Piña Town in the Caribbean littoral of Panama.

Mammalia; Cetacea; Physetheridae; Mioceno Tardío; Formación Chagres; Panamá


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