Also known as NMB Loc. 17850; 88-32-01
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.0° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: NN15 nannofossil zone, Shark Hole Point Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Shark Hole Point Fm conformably overlies the Nancy Point Fm and is overlain by an unnamed sequence of volcaniclastics. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 5.3-3.5 Ma, Early Pliocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 3.5-3.6 Ma corresponding to nannofossil stage NN15.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, bioturbated, micaceous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 6/5/88. REPOSITORIES: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61343: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Gymnolaemata | |
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852 | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark
Anadara (Cunearca) sp. Dall 1898 ark
Sheldonella sp. Maury 1917 clam | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) sp. Stewart 1930 cockle
Microcardium sp. Thiele 1934 cockle | |
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella)
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam | |
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847 venus clam | |
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam
Juliacorbula sp. Olsson 1953 clam | |
"Lucinisca sp." = Lucina (Lucinisca) Dall 1901 clam
Callucina sp. Dall 1901 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Fissidentalium sp. Fischer 1885 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Pseudotorinia sp. Sacco 1892 snail
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Pyramidellidae indet. Gray 1840 snail | |
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858 snail | |
? Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell | |
Scaphella sp. Swainson 1832 volute | |
Cancellaria petiti Olsson 1967 snail
Narona decaptyx Brown and Pilsbry 1911 snail | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955 snail
Syntomodrillia sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
? Pleurotomoides sp. Bronn 1831 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Bactrocythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Kurtziella (Kurtziella) sp. Dall 1918 snail | |
Lepicythara sp. Olsson 1964 turrid
Vaughanites sp. Woodring 1928 turrid
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Solenosteira sp. Dall 1890 true whelk
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Semicassis granulata Born 1778 snail
Sconsia grayi Adams 1855 snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail | |
Compsodrillia sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |