PPP# 176 - Escudo de Veraguas [Escudo de Veraguas Fm]: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Olivella (Minioliva) sp.
Olsson 1956
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Oliva (Oliva) sp.
Bruguière 1789
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Haustellum sp.
Schumacher 1817
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Volvarina sp.
(Hinds 1844)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp.
Woodring 1928
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Antillophos (Antillophos) sp.
Woodring 1928
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Metula sp.
Adams and Adams 1853
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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? Miraclathurella sp.
Woodring 1928
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Crassispira (Crassispira) sp.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| sensu-lato | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Panama | State/province: | Bocas |
| Coordinates: | 9.1° North, 81.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.0° North, 81.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 1.9 Ma (age-depth)1.9 to 1.8 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Bocas del Toro | Formation: | Escudo de Veraguas | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The upper and lower contacts of the formation are not exposed. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), not specified to Early or Late Pliocene; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999); age range also provided by Bybell (1999). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | burrows,bioturbation,fine poorly lithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | burrows,bioturbation poorly lithified argillaceous siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: from Collins et al. (1999), lower part of formation at the stratotype is moderately indurated, fine, silty sandstone and clayey siltstone, prevasively bioturbated and containing frequent, cemented, irregular burrow-concentrations and horizons with dense thalassinoid burrow systems. | |
| Environment: | deep-water indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 94), mixed middle neritic and outer nertic/upper bathyal, estimated depth of 125 m. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH,NMB,USNM |
| Collection method comments: COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/7/87. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB), | |
| Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. IDENTIFIER: presumably identified by J. Jackson, J. Todd, H. Fortunato, and P. Jung. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMB Loc. 17624; 87-10-06 | ||
| Database number: | 61338 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-06-05 20:37:17 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2006-12-05 20:37:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17667. | 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] |