Where: Colon, Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.4° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• LITHOSRATIGRAPHY: From the Gatun Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Miocene in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of the Gatun Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1986; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: 1/3/86. REPOSITORY: NMB.
Primary reference: O. Aguilera and D. R. de Aguilera. 1999. Bathymetric distribution of Miocene to Pleistocene Caribbean teleostean fishes from the coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357:251-269 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 145531: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Actinopteri | |
Equetus sp. Rafinesque 1815 | |
Pomadasys sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Ctenosciaena sp. Fowler and Bean 1923 perch-like fish | |
Bivalvia | |
Leptopecten ecnomius Woodring 1982 scallop | |
Anadara (Potiarca) sp. Iredale 1939 ark | |
Cardites sp. Link 1807 clam | |
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam
Chionopsis sp. Olsson 1932 venus clam
Lirophora (Lirophora) sp. Conrad 1863 venus clam | |
Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
Ervilia sp. Turton 1822 clam | |
Trigoniocardia "sp. 1" Dall 1900 cockle
Trigoniocardia "sp. 2" Dall 1900 cockle | |
Scaphopoda | |
Gadila sp. Gray 1847 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail | |
Olivella (Niteoliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Callolongchaeus sp. Dall 1903 snail |