Woodring Loc. 99h - Canal Zone [lower Culebra Fm]: Aquitanian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria inornata (Gabb 1873)
Woodring 1973 r category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus scotti Brown and Pilsbry 1913
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Amusium toulae (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1982 r category
Aequipecten canalis (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
Woodring 1982 a category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Lirophora (Lirophora) cf. quirosensis (Hodson 1927)
Woodring 1982 r category
Macrocallista (Paradione) maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
Woodring 1982 r category
Pitar (Pitar) aff. quirosanus (Hodson 1927)
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama strepta Woodring 1982
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) vetula Brown and Pilsbry 1913
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Solecurtus aff. broggii Pilsbry and Olsson 1941
Woodring 1982 r category
Subspecies: Solecurtus aff. broggii gatunensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trigoniocardia (Apiocardia) cf. simrothi (Dall 1900)
Woodring 1982 r category
Nemocardium hadraterum Woodring 1982
Woodring 1982 r category
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) phlyctaena (Dall 1900)
Woodring 1982 r category
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense (Gabb 1873)
Woodring 1982 f category
Subspecies: Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense dominicense
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus "incrassatus Gabb 1873
Woodring 1982 c category
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
? Pachycrommium cf. trinitatensis
r category
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Woodring 1970 f category
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbesea
Woodring 1970 r category
Subspecies: Ficus carbesea micronematica
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.1° North, 79.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.1° 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: 23.03 - 20.44 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:planar lamination,fine poorly lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: carbonaceous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Collection assumed to be from lower part of formation. The lower part of the formation comprises: dark-colored, thin-bedded or laminated, fine-grained rocks; carbonaceous or lignitic shale, carbonaceous silty mudstone, tuffaceous siltstone. The upper part comprises: calcareous and sandy strata, and ranges from tuffaceous amd pebbly calcareous sandstone to sandy limestone.
Environment:marine 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 and Vaughan (1911). 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. 6019h
Database number:42626
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-03 11:00:43 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2005-08-03 11:00:43
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]
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]