TU 757 - Cativa [lower Gatun Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gatun Fm, which regionally overlies the Caimito Fm or Mesozoic basement. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy (see Collins and Coates, 1999), refined by enterer to Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 11.1 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandy mudstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on observations of material.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92444: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Trajana (Nassariidae) described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis (Talityphis) eucteanus8 Woodring 1970 murex snail
"Typhis (Talityphis) obesus" = Typhina obesa2 Gabb 1873 murex snail
Eupleura thompsoni9 Woodring 1959 murex snail
Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis7 Brown and Pilsbry 1911 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Olssonella panamica n. sp." = Axelella panamica5, "Axelella panamica" = Axelella panamica4
"Olssonella panamica n. sp." = Axelella panamica5 Petit 1976 snail
"Axelella panamica" = Axelella panamica4 Petit 1976 snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Trajana (Nerva) woodringi n. sp.6 Vokes 1969 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa1 Sowerby 1835 frog shell
Bursa rugosa3 Sowerby 1835 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Monoplex parthenopeus1 von Salis Marschlins 1793 triton shell