Also known as NMB Loc. 17812
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
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 5/30/88. 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 80000: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 31.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
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Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turbonillinae indet. Bronn 1849 snail | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Styliola sp. Gray 1850 snail | |
Limacina sp. Bosc 1817 snail | |
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891 snail
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Alvania sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817 murex snail
"Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) sp." = Phyllonotus Swainson 1830 murex snail
Vitularia sp. Swainson 1840 murex snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Marsupina bufo BruguiƩre 1792 frog shell | |
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
? Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop | |
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897 mud scallop | |
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847 venus clam | |
? Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946 clam | |
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Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam |