PPP# 198 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Vovulella sp.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Turbonillidae indet.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Paracyathus adetos
Cairns 1995
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Antillocyathus gracilis
Cairns 1995
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Guyniidae
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Guynia annulata
Duncan 1872
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Balanophyllia pittieri
Vaughan 1919
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Gastropoda
- Eulimidae
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Eulimidae indet.
Philippi 1853
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Alabina sp.
Dall 1902
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Ancilla sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Hindsiclava sp.
Hertlein and Strong 1955
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra (Oreoterebra) sp.
Olsson 1967
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Strioterebrum sp.
Sacco 1891
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Prunum sp.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Voluta sp.
Linnaeaus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Sconsia sp.
Gray 1847
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Phalium (Tylocassis) sp.
(Woodring 1928)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Semicassis | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices sp.
Monfort 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Sinum sp.
Röding 1798
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Petaloconchus sp.
(Lea 1843)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Petaloconchus | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Tornidae
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Teinostoma sp.
Adams and Adams 1853
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vitrinellidae
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Cyclostremiscus sp.
Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
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1 specimen | |||||||||
? Cyclostremiscus sp.
Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Haminoeidae
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Atys sp.
Montfort 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Acteocina sp.
Gray 1847
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Rasia) sp.
(Gray 1857)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp.
(Woodring 1925)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Tucetona sp.
Iredale 1939
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53 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Argopecten sp.
Monterosato 1889
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Flabellipecten sp.
Sacco 1897
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Crenellidae
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Crenella sp.
Brown 1827
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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? Phacoides sp.
Blainville 1825
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caryocorbula sp.
(Gardner 1926)
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67 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula) | ||||||||||
Varicorbula sp.
Grant and Gale 1931
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28 specimens | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trachycardium sp.
Mörch 1853
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1 specimen | |||||||||
sensu-lato | ||||||||||
Laevicardium sp.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Eurytellina sp.
Fischer 1887
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1 specimen | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Eurytellina) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassinella sp.
Guppy 1874
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Leionucula sp.
Quenstedt 1930
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella sp.
Woodring 1925
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Gadilida
- Gadilidae
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Cadulus sp.
Philippi 1844
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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] |