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
TypeFormation
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
OtherSiltstone, mudstone
Location
Coordinates9°18′N 79°54′W / 9.3°N 79.9°W / 9.3; -79.9
Approximate paleocoordinates9°18′N 79°36′W / 9.3°N 79.6°W / 9.3; -79.6
RegionColón Province
Country Panama
ExtentPanama Basin
Type section
Named forMount Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Formation is located in Panama
Mount Hope Formation
Mount Hope Formation (Panama)

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  • 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, retrieved 2019-02-09

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