Woodring Loc. 115 - Canal Zone [lower Culebra Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as USGS Loc. 6505

Where: Panama (9.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Culebra Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Culebra Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Cascadas agglomerate; reassigned to La Boca Fm in subsequent publications of Woodring (e.g., 1973, 1982), but further emended by Kirby et al. (2009) to the lower member of the Culebra Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Limy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by MacDonald (1913). 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. Locality now unaccessible (submerged).

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 49492: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for gastropoda.
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Divaricella sp.3 Martens 1880 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele (Pitar) chipolana3 Dall 1900 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione (Chionopsis) propinqua3 Spieker 1922 venus clam
Ventricolaria harrisiana3 Olsson 1922 venus clam
Tivela (Tivela) mactroides3 Born 1778 venus clam
Pitar (Hyphantosoma) aff. centangulatus3 Brown and Pilsbry 1911 venus clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata2
"Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata2 Gmelin 1791 clam
Subspecies: Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata canalis
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella sp.1 Swainson 1831 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
? Cymatophos ? veatchi1 Olsson 1922 true whelk