Also known as NMB Loc. 17637
Where: Colon, Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The Gatun Fm rests unconformably on formations of different ages in different parts of the Panama Canal Basin. To the east of Colon, the Gatun Fm rests nonconformably on unamed Cretaceous volcanics. To the west of Colon, including several islands in Lake Gatun, the Gatun Fm rests with angular unconformity on the upper Oligocene Caimito Fm. Locality: Sabanita to Payardi. AGE: Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 11.3 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, gray, green siltstone and unlithified, bioturbated sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff) collected 8/18/87. 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 79780: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 23.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Leptopecten sp. Verrill 1897 scallop | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Caryocorbula sp., "Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) sp." = Hexacorbula
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam
"Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) sp." = Hexacorbula Olsson 1932 clam | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
Arcinella sp. Schumacher 1817 jewel box | |
Chionopsis sp. Olsson 1932 venus clam
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Semele sp. Schumacher 1817 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Epitonium (Asperiscala) sp. de Boury 1909 wentletrap | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail
Niso sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Neverita (Glossaulax) sp. Pilsbry 1929 moon snail
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail | |
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Siphocypraea sp. Heilprin 1897 cowry | |
Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Calophos sp. Woodring 1964 snail | |
? Antillophos sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk
Cymatophos sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 true whelk | |
Strombina (Strombina) sp. Mörch 1858 snail | |
Olivella (Niteoliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
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Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955 snail | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail
Terebra (Panaterebra) sp. Olsson 1967 auger snail | |
Eupleura sp. Adams and Adams 1853 murex snail | |
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850 snail | |
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Turbonillinae indet. Bronn 1849 snail | |
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873 snail
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble |