NMB 18495 - Río Chico [Tuira Fm]: Tortonian, Panama
collected by Coates & Jackson 1993

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella abrupta (Spieker 1922)
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea ringens (Swainson 1822)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Darien
Coordinates: 8.2° North, 77.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.0° North, 76.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:11.2 to 8.3 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tuira
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Tuira Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene, in text; subsequent publications suggest late Miocene or early Pliocene age; Coates et al. (2004) suggests a Tortonian age (11.2-8.3 Ma). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not reported in text. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine fauna.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMB
Collectors:Coates & Jackson Collection dates:1993
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Anthony G. Coates & Jeremy Jackson, 6.5.1993. REPOSITORY: NMB, Basel.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to gastropoda mentioned in text. Does not include other mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and including systematic revision of other neighboring Caribbean assemblages.
Metadata
Also known as: CJ-93-07-08
Database number:111209
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-21 05:40:53 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-06-21 05:40:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36423. B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 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 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]