Coll. 2 - North of Gatun Locks [Mount Hope Fm]: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Gastropoda
- Potamididae
|
|||||||
|
Cerithidea varicosa
|
|||||||
|
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
|
|||||||
|
Melongena melongena
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
|||||||
|
Gastropoda
- Neritidae
|
|||||||
|
Neritina virginea
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
|||||||
|
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
|
|||||||
|
Phacoides pectinatus
(Gmelin 1791)
|
|||||||
|
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Dreissenidae
|
|||||||
|
Congeria (Mytilopsis) cochleata
(Kickx 1835)
|
|||||||
| synonym of Mytilopsis leucophaeata | |||||||
|
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cyrenidae
|
|||||||
|
Cyrena (Polymesoda) acuta
|
|||||||
|
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
|
|||||||
|
Anomalocardia cuneimeris
(Conrad 1846)
|
|||||||
|
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
|
|||||||
|
Ostrea virginica
Gmelin 1791
|
|||||||
| recombined as Crassostrea virginica | |||||||
|
Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
|
|||||||
|
Balanus eburneus
Gould 1841
|
|||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.3° North, 79.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.2° North, 79.6° West |
| Altitude: | 10 feet |
| 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 |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mount Hope | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From what Scott (pers comm., 1911) referred to as the "Mount Hope Fm", which at this locality overlies the Gatun Fm. THICKNESS: Unknown stratigraphic thickness. AGE: Pleistocene, presumably (given geographic position) the Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the oyster bearing strata lying unconformably upon the Gatun Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified carbonaceous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Black, unconsolidated mud, carbonaceous. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on facies description. | |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic-dominated setting adjacent to mangrove swamp. Deposited at the head of an estuary or bay. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: W.B. Scott and M.D.F. MacDonald (1911). Collected by suction dredge. REPOSITORY: ANSP, Philadelphia. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Bivalvia and Gastropoda, and including Cirripedia and Anthozoa. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, but identified to species-resolution. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80307 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-04-12 14:08:11 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-04-12 14:08:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27007. | A. P. Brown and H. A. Pilsbry. 1913. Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 65(2):493-500 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila] |