Also known as NMB Loc. 17634
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Cayo Agua Fm is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999); direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/11/87. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79774: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 23.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852 | |
Gastropoda | |
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Stigmaulax sp., "Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail | |
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858 snail | |
Fasciolaria (Fasciolaria) sp. Lamarck 1799 tulip snail | |
Metula sp. Adams and Adams 1853 true whelk
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
Cancellaria petiti Olsson 1967 snail | |
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955 snail
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
"Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) sp." = Cochlespira
"Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) sp." = Cochlespira Conrad 1865 snail | |
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) sp. Gabb 1872 snail | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Olivella (Minioliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817 murex snail | |
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus Lea 1843 worm shell
"? Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus Lea 1843 worm shell
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell | |
Carinodrillia sp. Dall 1919 snail | |
Niso sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
? Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
? Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835 oyster | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863 venus clam | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam |