Woodring Loc. 138h - Cativa [lower Gatun Fm]: Tortonian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Flabellipecten gatunensis (Toula 1909)
F category
recombined as Leopecten gatunensis
SUBSPECIES: Flabellipecten gatunensis gatunensis
Leptopecten ecnomius Woodring 1982
C category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) baiterum Woodring 1982
R category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kelliellidae
Alveinus rotundus Dall 1900
A category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Lirophora (Lirophora) falconensis (Hodson et al. 1927)
C category
Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis (Conrad 1855)
R category
Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
C category
Lamelliconcha cora (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
R category
Agriopoma (Pitarella) gatunensis (Dall 1903)
R category
recombined as Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis
Clementia (Clementia) dariena (Conrad 1855)
R category
Macrocallista (Paradione) maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
F category
recombined as Macrocallista maculata
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bellucina actinus (Dall 1903)
F category
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) elassa Woodring 1982
C category
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.3° North, 79.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° North, 78.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:11.1 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gatun Member:lower Gatun
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Same stratigraphic position as previous collection (52173). Lower part of the Gatun Formation. The Gatun Formation is subdivided into three faunal zones (proposed by Thomson and Keen, 1946): lower, middle, and upper. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy (see Collins and Coates, 1999), refined by enterer to Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 11.1 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine unlithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Soft, silty 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:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: R.H. Stewart, J.L. Stewart, and W.P. Woodring, 1973. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publications, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Also known as:USGS 25281
Database number:93150
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-01-05 21:12:54 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-05 21:12:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]