Woodring Loc. 136 - Sabanita [lower Gatun Fm]: Tortonian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Trochita spirata (Forbes 1852)
R category
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olivellidae
Agaronia testacea (Lamarck 1811)
Woodring 1964 R category
Subspecies: Agaronia testacea mancinella
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella (Niteoliva) terryi Olsson 1956
Woodring 1964 F category
Oliva (Oliva) gatunensis (Toula 1908)
Woodring 1964 R category
original and current combination Oliva gatunensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cymatophos veatchi (Olsson 1922)
Woodring 1964 A category
Subspecies: Cymatophos veatchi veatchi
Nicema amara n. sp. Woodring 1964
Woodring 1964 F category
Strombinophos mimicus n. sp. Woodring 1964
Woodring 1964 R category
Hanetia dalli (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1964 R category
Subspecies: Hanetia dalli protera
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius (Uzita) praembiguus
Woodring 1964 R category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1964 F category
Strombina (Strombina) cf. lissa
Woodring 1964 F category
    = Sincola (Dorsina) pigea Olsson 1964
Jung 1994
Anachis (Costoanachis) stibara n. sp. Woodring 1964
Woodring 1964 F category
Anachis (Costoanachis) mira (Dall 1896)
Woodring 1964 R category
Subspecies: Anachis (Costoanachis) mira fugax
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena melongena (Linnaeus 1758)
Woodring 1964 R category
Subspecies: Melongena melongena consors
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus burckhardti Bose 1906
Woodring 1970 R category
Subspecies: Conus burkhardti harrisi
Conus acolus Woodring 1970
Woodring 1970 R category
Conus bravoi (Spieker 1922)
Woodring 1970 F category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Pleurolira (Polystira) tenagos Gardner 1947
Woodring 1970 R category
    = Polystira sp. Woodring 1928
Todd and Johnson 2013
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Cymia (Cymia) cheloma n. sp. Woodring 1959
Woodring 1964 R category
Typhis (Talityphis) alatus (Sowerby 1850)
Woodring 1964 R category
recombined as Typhina alata
Subspecies: Typhis (Talityphis) alatus obesus
Eupleura thompsoni n. sp. Woodring 1959
Woodring 1964 C category
Murex (Murex) polynematicus (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1959 R category
recombined as Vokesimurex polynematicus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Euclia) dinota Woodring 1970
Woodring 1970 F category
recombined as Euclia dinota
Cancellaria (Euclia) codazzii (Anderson 1929)
Woodring 1970 A category
recombined as Euclia codazzii
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) epistomifera (Guppy 1876)
Woodring 1970 F category
Subspecis: Cancellaria (Cancellaria) epistomitera dariena
    = Bivetiella dariena Toula 1908
Landau et al. 2012
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) aff. macneili (Mansfield 1937)
Woodring 1970 R category
    = Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
Landau et al. 2012
Cancellaria s.l. sp.
Cancellaria acalypta Woodring 1970
Woodring 1970 R category
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea ? camura Guppy 1866
Woodring 1959 R category
    = Malea ringens Swainson 1822
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917
Natica (Naticarius) stenopa n. sp.
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) fissicosta (Spieker 1922)
Woodring 1973 C category
Anadara (Rasia) dariensis (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1973 C category
Subspecies: Anadara (Rasia) dariensis dariensis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula prenasuta (Olsson 1964)
Woodring 1982 A category
Caryocorbula oropendula (Olsson 1922)
Woodring 1982 A category
Subspecies: Caryocorbula oropendula stena
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Lamelliconcha cora (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1982 C category
Cyclinella cyclica (Guppy 1866)
Woodring 1982 F category
Tivela mactroides (Born 1778)
Woodring 1982 R category
recombined as Tivela (Tivela) mactroides
Macrocallista (Paradione) maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
Woodring 1982 C category
recombined as Macrocallista maculata
Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1982 C category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Harvella elegans (Sowerby 1825)
Woodring 1982 C category
Subspecies: Harvella elegans elegans
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trigoniocardia (Apiocardia) aminensis (Dall 1900)
Woodring 1982 C category
recombined as Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) aminensis
Trachycardium (Mexicardia) dominicanum (Dall 1900)
Woodring 1982 R category
Subspecies: Trachycardium (Mexicardia) dominicanum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) punicea (Born 1778)
Woodring 1982 F category
recombined as Eurytellina punicea
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele laevis (Sowerby 1833)
Woodring 1982 F category
Subspecies: Semele laevis costaricensis
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) elassa n. sp. Woodring 1982
Woodring 1982 F category
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella balboae (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1973 R category
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.4° North, 79.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° North, 78.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:11.5 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gatun Member:lower Gatun
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of the Gatun Formation. The Gatun Formation is sibdivided into three faunal zones (proposed by Thomson and Keen, 1946): lower, middle, and upper. AGE: Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 11.5 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine poorly lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC: Silty fine-grained sandstone. GENERAL: Massive medium-to very fine-grained sandstone and siltstone. Somewhat calcareous, or marly, somewhat tuffaceous, and with a clay-like matrix. The lower part of the formation consists principally of medium-very fine-grained sandstone.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No specific environmental data presented.
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 Thomson and Woodring (1947). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Cornell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia.
Metadata
Also known as:USGS 16912
Database number:52169
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-07-28 14:14:21 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2006-07-28 14:14:21
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:

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]
19070 P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43491 B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
48647 J. A. Todd and K. G. Johnson. 2013. Dissecting a marine snail species radiation (Conoidea: Turridae: Polystira) over 12 million years in the southwestern Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine Science 89(4) [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]
13236 W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
13235 W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [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]