PPP# 197 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Turbonillidae indet.
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13 specimens | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Mamilloporidae
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Mamillopora cavernulosa
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Quadricellariidae
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Nellia tenella
(Lamarck 1816)
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Membraniporidae
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Cupuladria aff. canariensis
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11 specimens | |||||||||
Cupuladria biporosa
Canu and Bassler 1923
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Discoporella informal n. sp. 6
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Discoporella informal n. sp. 7
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Biflustra savartii
(Audouin 1826)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella sp.
Woodring 1925
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Crenellidae
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Crenella sp.
Brown 1827
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Tucetona sp.
Iredale 1939
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30 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Rasia) sp.
(Gray 1857)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Flabellipecten sp.
Sacco 1897
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Argopecten sp.
Monterosato 1889
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Propeamussiidae
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Cyclopecten sp.
Verrill 1897
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16 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassinella sp.
Guppy 1874
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17 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Verticordiidae
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Trigonulina sp.
d'Orbigny 1946
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Laevicardium sp.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Trigoniocardia sp.
Dall 1900
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Chione sp.
von Mühlfield 1811
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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11 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Varicorbula sp.
Grant and Gale 1931
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4 specimens | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula) | ||||||||||
Caryocorbula sp.
(Gardner 1926)
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91 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula) | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Retusidae
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Sulcoretusa sp.
Burch 1945
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Acteocina sp.
Gray 1847
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cavoliniidae
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Creseis sp.
Rang 1828
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Clio sp.
Linnaeus 1767
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Hyalocylis sp.
Fol 1875
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Cavolinia sp.
Avilgaard 1791
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Limacinidae
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Limacina sp.
Bosc 1817
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Caecidae
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Meioceras sp.
Carpenter 1858
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Antillophos (Antillophos) sp.
Woodring 1928
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius sp.
Duméril 1806
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3 specimens | |||||||||
sensu-lato | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Olivella (Macgintiella) sp.
Olsson 1956
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9 specimens | |||||||||
Olivella (? Olivella) sp.
Swainson 1831
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Ancillariidae
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Ancilla (Eburna) sp.
(Lamarck 1801)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Eburna | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mitridae
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Subcancilla sp.
Olsson and Harbison 1953
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Agatrix epomis
(Woodring 1928)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Lepicythara sp.
Olsson 1964
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Voluta sp.
Linnaeaus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Chicoreus (Siratus) sp.
(Jousseaume 1880)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Haustellum sp.
Schumacher 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Typhinae indet.
Cossmann 1903
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Volvarina sp.
(Hinds 1844)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Prunum sp.
Swainson 1840
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Dentimargo sp.
Cossmann 1899
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Xenophoridae
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Xenophora sp.
Fischer von Waldheim 1807
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Tonnidae
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Malea sp.
Valenciennes 1833
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Sconsia sp.
Gray 1847
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Serpulorbis sp.
Sasso 1827
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Natica sp.
Scopoli 1777
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Stigmaulax sp.
Morch 1852
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Amaea (Scalina) sp.
(Conrad 1865)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Scalina | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Eulimidae
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Eulimidae indet.
Philippi 1853
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2 specimens | |||||||||
? Niso sp.
Risso 1826
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Alabina sp.
Dall 1902
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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Carinodrillia sp.
(Dall 1919)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
? Carinodrillia sp.
(Dall 1919)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Calyptraea sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Crepidula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Calliostoma sp.
Swainson 1840
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Pseudotorinia sp.
Sacco 1892
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ringiculidae
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Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp.
(Sacco 1892)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Pyramidellidae indet.
Gray 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Listed as "Odostomiine" | ||||||||||
Eulimastoma sp.
Bartsch 1916
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Tesseracme sp.
Pilsbry 1898
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Gadilida
- Gadilidae
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Cadulus sp.
Philippi 1844
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Antillocyathus gracilis
Cairns 1995
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Paracyathus adetos
Cairns 1995
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Geography
Country: | Panama | State/province: | Bocas del Toro |
Coordinates: | 9.2° North, 82.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 9.1° North, 82.1° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 3.5 Ma (other)3.6 to 3.5 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Bocas del Toro | Formation: | Cayo Agua | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 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), 3.5-3.6 MY; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | bioturbation,shelly/skeletal,gray,blue poorly lithified argillaceous,silty sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 29), pervasively bioturbated gray blue, muddy, silty, lithic sandstone with comon horizons of abundant thick shelled mollusks and ahermatypic corals. | |
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 94), open inner neritic, estimated depth of 30 m. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
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), 8/11/87. 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# 17630; 87-29-03 | ||
Database number: | 61340 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-06-05 20:48:22 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2008-06-05 20:48:22 |
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] |
Secondary references:
43588 | A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |