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 | |
Turbonillinae indet. Bronn 1849 snail | |
Heliacus sp. d'Orbigny 1842 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail | |
Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847 snail | |
Cassis sp. Scopoli 1777 snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Cystiscus sp. Stimpson 1865 snail | |
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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Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Kurtzia sp. Bartsch 1934 snail | |
Nannodiella sp. Dall 1919 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
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Knefastia sp. Dall 1919 ribbed mitre | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850 snail | |
Atlanta sp. Lesueur 1817 snail | |
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891 snail | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
? Acmaea sp. Eschscholtz 1830 limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897 mud scallop | |
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897 scallop
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) sp. Gray 1842 clam
Arca (Arca) sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark
Anadara (? Rasia) sp. Gray 1847 ark | |
Kuphus sp. Guettard 1770 clam | |
Caryocorbula sp., "Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula)
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam | |
? Pythinella sp. Dall 1899 clam | |
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847 venus clam | |
"? Phlyctiderma sp." = Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma)
"? Phlyctiderma sp." = Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma) Dall 1899 clam | |
Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) sp. Stewart 1930 cockle | |
Abra sp. Lamarck 1818 abra | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Cupuladria aff. canariensis, Cupuladria biporosa, Cupuladria aff. biporosa, Discoporella "n. sp. 5", Discoporella "n. sp. 6", Discoporella "n. sp. 7", Biflustra savartii
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 7" d'Orbigny 1852
Biflustra savartii Audouin 1826 | |
Hippoporina "n. sp. 1" Neviani 1895 | |
Anthozoa | |
Asterosmilia exarata Duncan 1867 stony coral
Antillocyathus gracilis Cairns 1995 stony coral
Paracyathus henekeni Duncan 1863 stony coral |