Also known as USGS 6235
Where: Panama (9.3° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: middle Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Middle part of the Gatun Formation. The Gatun Formation is sibdivided 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 Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 10.1 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93169: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Anadara (Tosarca) sp. Noda 1965 ark | |
Caryocorbula prenasuta Olsson 1964 clam
Varicorbula islatrinitatis Maury 1925 clam | |
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Tellina (Eurytellina) angulosa, "Tellina (Eurytellina) punicea" = Eurytellina punicea, Psammacoma gatunensis
Tellina (Eurytellina) angulosa Gmelin 1791 tellin clam SUBSPECIES: Tellina (Eurytellina) angulosa costaricana
"Tellina (Eurytellina) punicea" = Eurytellina punicea Born 1778 tellin clam
Psammacoma gatunensis Toula 1909 tellin clam | |
Ervilia valhosierr Gardner 1928 clam |