Also known as NMB Loc. 17853
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 81.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shark Hole Point Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 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 5.2-3.6 Ma.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, bioturbated, micaceous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 6/5/88. 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 79994: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 31.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Fissidentalium sp. Fischer 1885 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail | |
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Antillophos (Rhipophos) sp. Woodring 1964 true whelk | |
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
"Cruziturricula sp." = Pleurofusia (Cruziturricula)
"Cruziturricula sp." = Pleurofusia (Cruziturricula) Marks 1951 turrid | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Miltha sp. Adams and Adams 1857 clam |