PPP# 196 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm: Piacenzian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Volvullela sp.
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2 specimens | |||||||||
? Turbonillidae indet.
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Turbonillidae indet.
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30 specimens | |||||||||
originally entered as "Turbonillidae sp." | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Rhizangiidae
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Septastrea altispina
Cairns 1995
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Oxysmilia pliocenica
Cairns 1995
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Paracyathus adetos n. sp.
Cairns 1995
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Cairns 1995 | |||||||||
Antillocyathus gracilis
Cairns 1995
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Calliostoma sp.
Swainson 1840
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Amaea (Scalina) sp.
(Conrad 1865)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Scalina | ||||||||||
Epitonium sp.
Bolten 1798
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp.
Schumacher 1817
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Calyptraea sp.
Lamarck 1799
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Alabina sp.
Dall 1902
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21 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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69 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Modulidae
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Modulus sp.
Gray 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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Miraclathurella sp.
Woodring 1928
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Carinodrillia sp.
(Dall 1919)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Olivella (Dactylidella) sp.
Woodring 1928
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp.
Olsson 1956
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Olivella (Olivella) sp.
Swainson 1831
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Oliva (Oliva) sp.
Bruguière 1789
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Ancilla sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius sp.
Duméril 1806
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5 specimens | |||||||||
sensu-lato | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mangeliidae
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? Kurtziella sp.
Dall 1918
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Strioterebrum sp.
Sacco 1891
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Polystira sp.
Woodring 1928
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Volvarina sp.
(Hinds 1844)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Marginella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Dentimargo sp.
Cossmann 1899
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Typhinae indet.
Cossmann 1903
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Haustellum sp.
Schumacher 1817
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Voluta sp.
Linnaeaus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Agatrix sp.
Petit 1967
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Tonnidae
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Malea sp.
Valenciennes 1833
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Phalium (Tylocassis) sp.
(Woodring 1928)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Semicassis | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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? Cypraeidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Xenophoridae
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Xenophora sp.
Fischer von Waldheim 1807
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Natica sp.
Scopoli 1777
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Stigmaulax sp.
Morch 1852
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Petaloconchus sp.
(Lea 1843)
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64 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Petaloconchus | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Caecidae
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Caecidae indet.
Gray 1850
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Meioceras sp.
Carpenter 1858
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vitrinellidae
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Cyclostremiscus sp.
Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonidae
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Acteon sp.
Montfort 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Eulimastoma sp.
Bartsch 1916
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6 specimens | |||||||||
"Odostomia" sp.
Fleming 1817
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica sp.
Röding 1798
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Spirolaxis sp.
Monterosato 1913
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Acteocina sp.
Gray 1847
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Retusidae
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Sulcoretusa sp.
Burch 1945
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9 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cavoliniidae
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Creseis sp.
Rang 1828
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Hyalocylis sp.
Fol 1875
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Cavolinia sp.
Avilgaard 1791
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27 specimens | |||||||||
Styliola sp.
Gray 1850
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Noetiidae
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Eontia sp.
MacNeil 1937
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Rasia) sp.
(Gray 1857)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Tucetona sp.
Iredale 1939
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234 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula sp.
Lamarck 1801
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37 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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? Limaria sp.
Link 1807
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Propeamussiidae
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Cyclopecten sp.
Verrill 1897
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66 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Argopecten sp.
Monterosato 1889
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97 specimens | |||||||||
Flabellipecten sp.
Sacco 1897
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Hyotissa sp.
Stenzel 1971
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostreidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Crenellidae
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Crenella sp.
Brown 1827
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13 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Verticordiidae
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Trigonulina sp.
d'Orbigny 1946
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Pholadidae
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Martesia sp.
Sowerby 1824
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caryocorbula sp.
(Gardner 1926)
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129 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula) | ||||||||||
Juliacorbula sp.
Olsson 1953
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Varicorbula sp.
Grant and Gale 1931
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380 specimens | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Lirophora sp.
Conrad 1863
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Ventricolaria sp.
Keen 1954
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5 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Globivenus | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trigoniocardia sp.
Dall 1900
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41 specimens | |||||||||
Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Trachycardium sp.
Mörch 1853
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5 specimens | |||||||||
sensu-lato | ||||||||||
Laevicardium sp.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina (Phyllodina) sp.
Dall 1900
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Panopea sp.
(Menard 1807)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Carditidae indet.
Fleming 1820
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassinella sp.
Guppy 1874
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36 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Leionucula sp.
Quenstedt 1930
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella sp.
Woodring 1925
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26 specimens | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Gadilida
- Gadilidae
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Cadulus sp.
Philippi 1844
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32 specimens | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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4 specimens | |||||||||
sensu-lato | ||||||||||
Tesseracme sp.
Pilsbry 1898
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Membraniporidae
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Cupuladria aff. canariensis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Cupuladria biporosa
Canu and Bassler 1923
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Cupuladria aff. biporosa
Canu and Bassler 1923
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Discoporella informal n. sp. 6
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Discoporella informal n. sp. 7
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Mamilloporidae
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Mamillopora tuberosa
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Schizoporellidae
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Schizoporella cornuta
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Characodoma contractum
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Smittinidae
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Parasmittina crosslandi
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Phidoloporidae
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Hippoporella gorgonensis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Panama | State/province: | Bocas del Toro |
Coordinates: | 9.2° North, 82.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 9.1° North, 81.6° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 3.5 Ma (other)3.6 to 3.5 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Bocas del Toro | Formation: | Cayo Agua | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Cayo Agua Fm is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), 3.5 MY; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | bioturbation,shelly/skeletal,gray,blue poorly lithified argillaceous,silty sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 29), pervasively bioturbated gray blue, muddy, silty, lithic sandstone with comon horizons of abundant thick shelled mollusks and ahermatypic corals. | |
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 94), open inner neritic, estimated depth of 30 m. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH,NMB,USNM |
Collection method comments: COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/11/87. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB), | |
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. IDENTIFIER: presumably identified by J. Jackson, J. Todd, H. Fortunato, and P. Jung. |
Metadata
Also known as: | NMB# 17631; 87-29-02 | ||
Database number: | 61339 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-06-05 20:46:16 | Last modified: | 2022-11-14 23:00:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-06-05 20:46:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17667. | L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
30941 | S. D. Cairns. 1995. New records of azooxanthellate stony corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia and Stylasteridae) from the Neogene of Panama and Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3):533-550 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel] | |
43588 | A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |