USGS 5906a, Chagres River: Messinian, Panama
collected by D.F. MacDonald 1911
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
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Balanus glyptopoma
(Pilsbry 1916)
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Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.2° North, 79.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chagres | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Only information is "Pliocene series" (plausibly from the latest Miocene Chagres Formation) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | D.F. MacDonald | Collection dates: | 1911 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 135458 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Schweitzer | Enterer: | S. Yost |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | decapod |
| Created: | 2012-10-26 07:36:28 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-26 07:36:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43320. | decapod | M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham] |