PPP# 198 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Vovulella sp.
1 specimen
Turbonillidae indet.
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus adetos Cairns 1995
Antillocyathus gracilis Cairns 1995
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Guynia annulata Duncan 1872
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia pittieri Vaughan 1919
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Oreoterebra) sp. Olsson 1967
1 specimen
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847
1 specimen
Phalium (Tylocassis) sp. (Woodring 1928)
1 specimen
synonym of Semicassis
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Sinum sp. Röding 1798
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sp. (Lea 1843)
1 specimen
original and current combination Petaloconchus
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
1 specimen
? Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Haminoeidae
Atys sp. Montfort 1810
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) sp. (Gray 1857)
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp. (Woodring 1925)
1 specimen
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
53 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
5 specimens
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
67 specimens
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula)
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
28 specimens
spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium sp. Mörch 1853
1 specimen
sensu-lato
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Eurytellina sp. Fischer 1887
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Eurytellina)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Leionucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925
7 specimens
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
10 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
sensu-lato
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas
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 - 2.58800 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), no specific ages listed, but assumed to be similar to preceding and locally neighboring collections; 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# 17632; 87-29-04
Database number:61341
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-05 20:49:34 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-06-05 20:49:34
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]