Woodring Loc. 104a - Canal Zone [upper Culebra Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as USGS Loc. 6976

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 conglomerate

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by MacDonald (1911). 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 49491: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for gastropoda.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides suprasulcatus1 Gabb 1873 horn snail
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
"Xancus cf. validus" = Turbinella valida2
"Xancus cf. validus" = Turbinella valida2 Sowerby 1850 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Crassostrea cahobasensis" = Striostrea cahobasensis3
"Crassostrea cahobasensis" = Striostrea cahobasensis3 Pilsbry and Brown 1910 oyster