Woodring Loc. 119 - Las Cascadas [Emperador Limestone]: Aquitanian, Panama
collected by MacDonald 1911
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Cypraea cf. chilona
Dall 1900
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Woodring 1959 | R category | ||||||||
| recombined as Loxacypraea chilona | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Thersiteidae
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Orthaulax cf. aguadillensis
Maury 1920
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Woodring 1959 | R category | ||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium (Fissidentalium) uscarianum
Olsson 1922
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Woodring 1973 | R category | ||||||||
| recombined as Fissidentalium uscarianum | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris (Tucetona) secticostata
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Woodring 1973 | R category | ||||||||
| original and current combination Tucetona | ||||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Glycymeris (Tucetona) secticostata schencki | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.1° North, 79.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.1° North, 77.2° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 20.5 Ma (Sr isotope) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Culebra | Member: | Emperador Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Emperador Limestone Member of the La Boca Formation. Orginally placed in Caimito, but emended by Woodring (1970), and then Kirby et al. (2009). AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Lower part of upper limestone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Limestone | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | MacDonald | Collection dates: | 1911 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: D.F. MacDonald, 1911. REPOSITORY: USNM. | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods, bivalves, echinoderms. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | USGS 5858; W119 | ||
| Database number: | 145561 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-06-06 01:04:22 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-06-06 01:04:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11306. | W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 11372 | W. P. Woodring. 1959. Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 13235 | W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |