PPP# 197 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Turbonillidae indet.
13 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
Mamillopora cavernulosa
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella (Lamarck 1816)
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Discoporella informal n. sp. 6
10 specimens
Discoporella informal n. sp. 7
1 specimen
Cupuladria aff. canariensis
11 specimens
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
10 specimens
Biflustra savartii (Audouin 1826)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
7 specimens
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea sp. Valenciennes 1833
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Siratus) sp. (Jousseaume 1880)
1 specimen
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Typhinae indet. Cossmann 1903
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899
7 specimens
Volvarina sp. (Hinds 1844)
12 specimens
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Ancilla (Eburna) sp. (Lamarck 1801)
4 specimens
original and current combination Eburna
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956
9 specimens
Olivella (? Olivella) sp. Swainson 1831
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Lepicythara sp. Olsson 1964
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
3 specimens
sensu-lato
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Agatrix epomis (Woodring 1928)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Amaea (Scalina) sp. (Conrad 1865)
1 specimen
original and current combination Scalina
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853
2 specimens
? Niso sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
? Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae
Clio sp. Linnaeus 1767
4 specimens
Hyalocylis sp. Fol 1875
3 specimens
Creseis sp. Rang 1828
5 specimens
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Limacinidae
Limacina sp. Bosc 1817
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. (Sacco 1892)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Pseudotorinia sp. Sacco 1892
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae indet. Gray 1840
1 specimen
Listed as "Odostomiine"
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
17 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758
11 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Trigoniocardia sp. Dall 1900
2 specimens
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
4 specimens
spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula)
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
91 specimens
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897
4 specimens
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897
16 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) sp. (Gray 1857)
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
30 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Tesseracme sp. Pilsbry 1898
1 specimen
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
14 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus adetos Cairns 1995
Antillocyathus gracilis Cairns 1995
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas del Toro
Coordinates: 9.2° North, 82.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° North, 82.1° 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 - 2.58000 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), 3.5-3.6 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# 17630; 87-29-03
Database number:61340
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-05 20:48:22 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-06-05 20:48:22
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:

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]