Woodring Loc. 115a - Canal Zone [lower Culebra Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as USGS Loc. 6515

Where: Panama (9.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Culebra Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Culebra Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Cascadas agglomerate; reassigned to La Boca Fm in subsequent publications of Woodring (e.g., 1973, 1982), but further emended by Kirby et al. (2009) to the lower member of the Culebra Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Limy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by MacDonald (1913). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci. Locality now unaccessible (submerged).

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42607: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for gastropoda.
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ellobiidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides suprasulcatus1 Gabb 1873 horn snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Pachycrommium cf. guppyi Gabb 1873 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Trochita sp.4, "Trochita cf. trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis
Trochita sp.4 Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
"Trochita cf. trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1815 worm shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea1 Guppy 1866 fig shell
Subspecies: Ficus carbasea micronematica
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Thersiteidae
Orthaulax aguadillensis1 Maury 1920 snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra (Tiara) sp.2 Swainson 1831 mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Northia cf. northiae2 Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon 1833 true whelk
? Cymatophos cf. veatchi2 Olsson 1922 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Oreoterebra) dicheres3 Woodring 1970 auger snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
? Neverita sp. Risso 1826 moon snail
? Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria inornata4 Gabb 1873 pearl oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Cyathodonta gatunensis5 Toula 1909 clam
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus incrassatus5 Gabb 1873 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactridae indet.5 Lamarck 1809 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Macrocallista (Paradione) aff. maculata" = Macrocallista maculata5, ? Parastarte sp.5
"Macrocallista (Paradione) aff. maculata" = Macrocallista maculata5 Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
? Parastarte sp.5 Conrad 1862 venus clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama strepta5 Woodring 1982 jewel box
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) vetula5 Brown and Pilsbry 1913 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Solecurtus cf. broggii5 Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 clam
Subspecies: Solecurtus aff. broggii gatunensis