Mount Hope Formation

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]

Mount Hope Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Pleistocene
Type	Formation
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Other	Siltstone, mudstone
Location
Coordinates	9.3°N 79.9°W / 9.3; -79.9
Approximate paleocoordinates	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)

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Panama