Also known as NMB Loc. 18719
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: NN16 nannofossil zone, Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cayo Agua Formation, which 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. AGE: Early Pliocene (Zanclean) in text; Nannoplankton zone NN16; also contains the planktonic foraminifers Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 2 m in section 19 of Coates & Collins (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, silty sandstone
•LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text, but known to be poorly lithified by enterer; figured specimens appear to have been cleaned of sediment.
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Heitz in 1995; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: P. Jung and A. Heitz, 20.9.1995. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136315: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Myctophum jacksoni Aguilera and de Aguilera 2001 lanternfish
Diaphus depressifrons Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish
Diaphus hataii Ohe and Araki 1973 lanternfish | |
Gastropoda | |
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell | |
Distorsio decussata Valenciennes 1832 snail | |
Sconsia grayi Adams 1855 snail | |
Monoplex panamensis Beu 2010 triton shell |