Also known as NMB Loc. 17858
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 80.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nancy Point Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Nancy Point Fm is conformable with the Tobabe Fm below and the Shark Hole Point Fm above. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 8.2-5.6 Ma, Late Miocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 6.5-5.6 Ma; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, carbonaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung et al. in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, D. Geary & L. Anderson, 6.6.1988. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and 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 61347: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852 | |
Trypostega venusta Norman 1864 | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam | |
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Cancellaria petiti Olsson 1967 snail | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
"Ancilla (Eburna) sp." = Eburna
"Ancilla (Eburna) sp." = Eburna Lamarck 1801 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
? Borsonella sp. Dall 1908 snail | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
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Columbellopsis sp. Bucquoy et al. 1882 snail | |
Amarophos sp. Woodring 1964 true whelk
Strombinophos sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 true whelk
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
Peristernia sp. Mörch 1852 snail | |
Oocorys sp. Fischer 1883 snail
Echinophoria hadra Woodring and Olsson 1957 snail | |
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell
Petaloconchus sp. Lea 1843 worm shell | |
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius, Polinices sp.
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail |