Also known as NMB Loc. 17624; 87-10-06
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The upper and lower contacts of the formation are not exposed. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), not specified to Early or Late Pliocene; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999); age range also provided by Bybell (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, fine-grained, argillaceous sandstone and poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/7/87. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61338: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
Metula sp. Adams and Adams 1853 true whelk
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell | |
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817 murex snail | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Olivella (Minioliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
? Miraclathurella sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Crassispira (Crassispira) sp. Swainson 1840 snail |