Palms are one of the most diverse and dominant plant groups in the tropical and subtropical areas of South America today, but their macrofossil record in the region is relatively limited. The Belen paleobotanical flora of western Peru was introduced by Berry and is important as one of the most diverse fruit and seed floras from South America. Dating to the early Oligocene based on diatoms, this assemblage provides insight to vegetation of northwestern Peru prior to the full uplift of Andes and establishment of the Humboldt current. This flora dates to prior to the close of the Central American Seaway and the Great American Interchange, providing vegetational insights into the flora and climate in the area prior to these paleobiogeographic events. Berry recognized three palms in his investigation of the Belen flora. Two are based on a single specimen and remain questionable because they lack diagnostic pores and other characters, but the specimens assigned to Palmocarpon bravoi show distinctive features confirming their identity as palms.  Here, we revisit P.  bravoi as based on original collections and supplemented by new specimens collected in 2010, concluding that the original taxon concept includes what we now consider to be two separate species.