PPP# 201 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Zanclean, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Solenosteria sp.
3 specimens
Turbonilline sp.
2 specimens
Typhine sp.
1 specimen
Septastraea marylandica
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
26 specimens
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
2 specimens
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sp. (Lea 1843)
13 specimens
original and current combination Petaloconchus
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Knefastia sp. Dall 1919
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
8 specimens
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Euclia codazzii (Anderson 1929)
Landau et al. 2012 4 specimens
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
8 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria (Fasciolaria) sp. Lamarck 1799
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928
60 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899
1 specimen
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
11 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
15 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928
1 specimen
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) sp. Gabb 1872
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Tugurium sp. Fischer 1880
3 specimens
synonym of Onustus
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. (Sacco 1892)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
Solariorbis (Hapalorbis) sp. ()
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
30 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
5 specimens
? Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897
1 specimen
Amusium sp. (Röding 1798)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Hyotissa sp. Stenzel 1971
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) sp. (Gray 1857)
45 specimens
Anadara (Tosarca) sp. Noda 1965
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Eontia sp. MacNeil 1937
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Noetia (Eontia)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
Reptadeonella tubulifera
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
Mamillopora informal n. sp. 2
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Discoporella informal n. sp. 5
1 specimen
Discoporella informal n. sp. 7
1 specimen
Cupuladria aff. canariensis
1 specimen
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
10 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas del Toro
Coordinates: 9.2° North, 82.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° North, 81.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:4.3 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), no specific ages listed, but assumed to be similar to preceding and locally neighboring collections; 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# 17635
Database number:79777
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-23 14:55:36 Last modified:2012-11-28 20:32:38
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-23 14:55:36
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:

43469 B. D. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):311-339 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]