Also known as NMB Loc. 17809
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Cayo Agua Fm is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999); direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collected in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 5/30/88. 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 79983: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 31.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
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Gastropoda | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Atlanta sp. Lesueur 1817 snail | |
Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847 snail | |
Cassis sp. Scopoli 1777 snail | |
Knefastia sp. Dall 1919 ribbed mitre | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
Olivella (? Macgintiella) sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail
Olivella (? Niteoliva) sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
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Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
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Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
Cystiscus sp. Stimpson 1865 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Kurtzia sp. Bartsch 1934 snail
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Nannodiella sp. Dall 1919 snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850 snail | |
Turbonillinae indet. Bronn 1849 snail | |
Heliacus sp. d'Orbigny 1842 snail | |
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891 snail | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
? Acmaea sp. Eschscholtz 1830 limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Kuphus sp. Guettard 1770 clam | |
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula), Caryocorbula sp.
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
"? Phlyctiderma sp." = Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma)
"? Phlyctiderma sp." = Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma) Dall 1899 clam | |
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847 venus clam | |
? Pythinella sp. Dall 1899 clam | |
Abra sp. Lamarck 1818 abra | |
Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) sp. Stewart 1930 cockle | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897 mud scallop | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) sp. Gray 1842 clam
Anadara (? Rasia) sp. Gray 1847 ark
Arca (Arca) sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Hippoporina "n. sp. 1" Neviani 1895 | |
Discoporella "n. sp. 5", Discoporella "n. sp. 6", Discoporella "n. sp. 7", Cupuladria aff. canariensis, Cupuladria biporosa, Cupuladria aff. biporosa, Biflustra savartii
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 7" d'Orbigny 1852
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Biflustra savartii Audouin 1826 | |
Anthozoa | |
Asterosmilia exarata Duncan 1867 stony coral
Paracyathus henekeni Duncan 1863 stony coral
Antillocyathus gracilis Cairns 1995 stony coral |