Woodring Loc. 112a - Canal Zone [upper Culebra Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as USGS Loc. 16927

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Culebra Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Culebra Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Cascadas agglomerate; emended by Kirby et al. (2009) to the upper member of the Culebra Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Burdigalian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Dirty sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Schultz and Woodring (1947). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42616: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for gastropoda.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Clementia (Clementia) dariena3 Conrad 1855 venus clam
Subspecies: Clementia (Clementia) dariena rabelli
Pitar (Pitar) aff. quirosanus3 Hodson 1927 venus clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Psammacoma diphas3 Woodring 1982 tellin clam
Tellina (Eurytellina) ophiaca3 Woodring 1982 tellin clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus incrassatus3 Gabb 1873 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia sp.3 Lamarck 1801 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Lepidopecten proterus3 Woodring 1982 scallop
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) dariensis2 Brown and Pilsbry 1911 ark
Subspecies: Anadara (Rasia) dariensis progonica
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Metula sp.1 Adams and Adams 1853 true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Sinum sp. Röding 1798 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (? Torcula) amaras" = Torcula, Turritella venezuelana
"Turritella (? Torcula) amaras" = Torcula turret shell
Turritella venezuelana Hodson 1926 turret shell