Mount Hope Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Pleistocene

Type| Formation
Lithology
Primary| Limestone
Other| Siltstone, mudstone
Location
Coordinates| Coordinates: 9°18′N 79°54′W﻿ / ﻿9.3°N 79.9°W﻿ / 9.3; -79.9
Paleocoordinates| 9°18′N 79°36′W﻿ / ﻿9.3°N 79.6°W﻿ / 9.3; -79.6
Region| Colón Province
Country|  Panama
Extent| Panama Basin
Type section
Named for| Mount Hope Cemetery

Mount Hope Formation (Panama)

The Mount Hope Formation is a geologic formation of the Caribbean mouth of the Panama Canal Zone in Panama. The limestones, mudstones and siltstones preserve bivalve, gastropod (Monoplex comptus)[1] and crustacean fossils dating to the Early Pleistocene.[2] The formation is named after Mount Hope Cemetery, the burial ground for black West Indian immigrants who died working on the intercontinental Panama Railroad at the Panama Canal for the American Panamanian Railroad Corporation between 1850 and 1855.[3]

## Contents

* 1 See also
* 2 References
* 2.1 Bibliography
* 3 Further reading

## See also

* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Panama

## References

1. ↑ Beu, 2010, p.151
2. ↑ Mount Hope Formation at Fossilworks.org
3. ↑ Mount Hope Cemetery

### Bibliography

* Beu, A.G. 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. Accessed 2019-02-09.

## Further reading

* A. P. Brown and H. A. Pilsbry. 1913. Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 493–500
* T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from Central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189–524

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