PPP# 10 - Sabanita [lower Gatun Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as NMB Loc. 18352

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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

• No specific environmental data presented.
• LITHOLOGY: Silty sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of observed specimens.

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: A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145579: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs and fish. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature. Subgenus-resolution identifications.
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Hippoporidridae
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Discoporella "n. sp. 7" d'Orbigny 1852
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923