USGS 6019b, Canal Zone: Aquitanian, Panama
collected by D.F. MacDonald, T.W. Vaughan 1911
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium (Fissidentalium) uscarianum
Olsson 1922
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Woodring 1973 | f category | ||||||||
| recombined as Fissidentalium uscarianum | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis
(Röding 1798)
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Woodring 1970 | r category | ||||||||
| original and current combination Architectonica nobilis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Scaphander (Scaphander) cryus
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Woodring 1970 | r category | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Bittium scotti
Brown and Pilsbry 1913
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Woodring 1970 | c category | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella venezuelana
Hodson 1926
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r category | |||||||||
| Woodring changes identification from previous monograph | ||||||||||
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Turritella (? Bactrospira) amaras
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a category | |||||||||
| Woodring changes identification from previous monograph | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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r category | |||||||||
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Crucibulum sp.
Schumacher 1817
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Calyptraea cf. centralis
(Conrad 1841)
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c category | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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? Neverita sp.
Risso 1826
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a category | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Rissoidae
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Rissoina (? Zebinella) sp.
(Mörch 1876)
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r category | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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? Mitrella sp.
Risso 1826
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Woodring 1964 | r category | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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? Fusinus sp.
Rafinesque 1815
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Woodring 1964 | r category | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius (? Uzita) praeambiguus
(Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
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Woodring 1964 | c category | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Melongena sp.
Schumacher 1817
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Woodring 1964 | r category | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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? Olivella sp.
Swainson 1831
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Woodring 1964 | r category | ||||||||
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Oliva (Oliva) sp.
Bruguière 1789
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Woodring 1970 | f category | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Prunum (Microspira) aff. apalachee
(Gardner 1947)
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Woodring 1970 | r category | ||||||||
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Marginella (Eratoidea) sp.
(Weinkauff 1879)
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Woodring 1970 | r category | ||||||||
| original and current combination Eratoidea | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Adrana sp.
Adams and Adams 1858
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Woodring 1973 | r category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Lepidopecten proterus
Woodring 1982
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Woodring 1982 | a category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Rasia) dariensis
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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Woodring 1973 | c category | ||||||||
| Subspecies: Anadara (Rasia) dariensis progonica | ||||||||||
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Anadara (Grandiarca) balboai
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Woodring 1973 | a category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trigoniocardia (Apiocardia) cf. simrothi
(Dall 1900)
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Woodring 1982 | c category | ||||||||
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Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense
(Gabb 1873)
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Woodring 1982 | c category | ||||||||
| Subspecies: Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense dominicense | ||||||||||
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Laevicardium laevigatum
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
| replaced by Laevicardium serratum | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Donacidae
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Donax gonoides
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Woodring 1982 | f category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina (Eurytellina) ophiaca
Woodring 1982
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Woodring 1982 | c category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Psammobiidae
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Gari (Gobraeus) sp.
(Brown 1844)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Lirophora (Lirophora) cf. quirosensis
(Hodson 1927)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
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Ventricolaria harrisiana
(Olsson 1922)
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Woodring 1982 | c category | ||||||||
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Chione (Chionopsis) eurylopas
Woodring 1982
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Woodring 1982 | c category | ||||||||
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Chione (Chionopsis) propinqua
(Spieker 1922)
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Woodring 1982 | a category | ||||||||
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Pitar (Pitar) aff. quirosanus
(Hodson 1927)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
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Tivela (Tivela) mactroides
(Born 1778)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
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Clementia (Clementia) dariena
(Conrad 1855)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
| Subspecies: Clementia (Clementia) dariena dariena | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Harvella sp.
(Gray 1853)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) cruziana
(Olsson 1932)
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Woodring 1982 | a category | ||||||||
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Varicorbula cf. vieta
(Guppy 1866)
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Woodring 1982 | c category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucinisca cf. calhounensis
(Dall 1903)
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Carditamera cf. tegea
(Dall 1903)
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Woodring 1982 | f category | ||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Portunidae
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Callinectes sp.
Stimpson 1860
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Rathbun 1918 | |||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Panopeidae
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Panopeus sp.
Milne Edwards 1834
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Rathbun 1918 | |||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Callianassidae
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Callianassa scotti
Brown and Pilsbry 1913
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Rathbun 1918 | |||||||||
| recombined as Neocallichirus scotti | ||||||||||
| 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: | 23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 21.6 Ma (Sr isotope) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Culebra | ||||
| 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: Dark, stratified tuff and clay | |
| 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 | ||
| Collectors: | D.F. MacDonald, T.W. Vaughan | Collection dates: | 1911 |
| 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: | Woodring Loc. 99b | ||
| Database number: | 42631 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, M. Clapham | Enterer: | A. Hendy, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-08-03 11:02:29 | Last modified: | 2022-07-20 12:01:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-03 11:02:29 |
| 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] | |
| 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] |
| 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] |