Woodring Loc. 115a - Canal Zone [lower Culebra Fm]: Aquitanian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ellobiidae
Ellobium pellucens
Woodring 1970 r category
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Potamides suprasulcatus (Gabb 1873)
Woodring 1959 f category
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Pachycrommium cf. guppyi (Gabb 1873)
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Trochita sp. Schumacher 1817
Woodring 1973 r category
Trochita cf. trochiformis (Gmelin 1791)
recombined as Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Woodring 1959 f category
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea (Guppy 1866)
Woodring 1959 r category
Subspecies: Ficus carbasea micronematica
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Woodring 1959 f category
Gastropoda - Thersiteidae
Orthaulax aguadillensis Maury 1920
Woodring 1959 r category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra (Tiara) sp. (Swainson 1831)
Woodring 1964 r category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Northia cf. northiae (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon 1833)
Woodring 1964 r category
? Cymatophos cf. veatchi (Olsson 1922)
Woodring 1964 r category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Oreoterebra) dicheres Woodring 1970
Woodring 1970 r category
Gastropoda - Naticidae
? Neverita sp. Risso 1826
? Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Scaphander (Scaphander) cryus
Woodring 1970 r category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria inornata (Gabb 1873)
Woodring 1973 r category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Barbatia) cf. cancellaria (Lamarck 1819)
Woodring 1973 r category
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Cyathodonta gatunensis (Toula 1909)
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus incrassatus Gabb 1873
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactridae indet. Lamarck 1809
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista (Paradione) aff. maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
Woodring 1982 c category
recombined as Macrocallista maculata
? Parastarte sp. Conrad 1862
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama strepta Woodring 1982
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) phlyctaena (Dall 1900)
Woodring 1982 c category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) vetula Brown and Pilsbry 1913
Woodring 1982 f category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Solecurtus cf. broggii Pilsbry and Olsson 1941
Woodring 1982 c category
Subspecies: Solecurtus aff. broggii gatunensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.0° North, 79.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.0° North, 77.3° 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:21.6 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Culebra Member:lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Culebra Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Cascadas agglomerate; reassigned to La Boca Fm in subsequent publications of Woodring (e.g., 1973, 1982), but further emended by Kirby et al. (2009) to the lower member of the Culebra Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limy sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: Collected by MacDonald (1913). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci. Locality now unaccessible (submerged).
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for gastropoda.
Metadata
Also known as:USGS Loc. 6515
Database number:42607
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-03 10:54:58 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2005-08-03 10:54:58
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:

43691 M. X. Kirby, D. S. Jones, and B. J. MacFadden. 2009. Lower Miocene stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and its bearing on the Central American Peninula. PLoS One 3(7):1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
13232 W. P. Woodring. 1964. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(C):241-297 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
13236 W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [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]
13359 W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]