Woodring Loc. 104a - Canal Zone [upper Culebra Fm]: Burdigalian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turbinellidae
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Xancus cf. validus
(Sowerby 1850)
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Woodring 1964 | r category | |||||
| recombined as Turbinella valida | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Potamididae
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Potamides suprasulcatus
(Gabb 1873)
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Woodring 1959 | r category | |||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea cahobasensis
(Pilsbry and Brown 1910)
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Woodring 1982 | c category | |||||
| recombined as Striostrea cahobasensis | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.1° North, 79.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.4° North, 77.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 19.5 Ma (Sr isotope) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Culebra | Member: | upper | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Culebra Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Cascadas agglomerate; emended by Kirby et al. (2009) to the upper member of the Culebra Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Burdigalian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within member. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Conglomerate | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: Collected by MacDonald (1911). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for gastropoda. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | USGS Loc. 6976 | ||
| Database number: | 49491 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-17 13:54:14 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2006-04-17 13:54:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11306. | W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 43691 | M. X. Kirby, D. S. Jones, and B. J. MacFadden. 2009. Lower Miocene stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and its bearing on the Central American Peninula. PLoS One 3(7):1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 11372 | W. P. Woodring. 1959. Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 13232 | W. P. Woodring. 1964. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(C):241-297 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 13359 | W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |