Where: Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gatun Fm, which regionally overlies the Caimito Fm or Mesozoic basement. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle member of the Gatun Formatio according to the author; the enterer considers this to be the lower member of the Gatun Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Landau; reposited in the NHMW
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: B. Landau. REPOSITORY: NHMW, Vienna.
Primary reference: B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136005: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pyruclia tweedledee, Cancellaria harzhauseri n. sp., Cancellaria mixta n. sp., Bivetiella dariena, Axelella panamica, Euclia codazzii, Massyla terryi, Agatrix agathe
Pyruclia tweedledee Landau et al. 2012 snail
Cancellaria harzhauseri n. sp. Landau et al. 2012 snail
Cancellaria mixta n. sp. Landau et al. 2012 snail
Bivetiella dariena Toula 1908 snail
Axelella panamica Petit 1976 snail
Euclia codazzii Anderson 1929 snail
Massyla terryi Olsson 1942 snail
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