PPP# 400 - Valiente Peninsula [Nancy Point Fm]: Messinian, Panama
collected by Jung et al. 1988
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Oocorys sp.
Fischer 1883
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cochlespiridae
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Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) sp.
(Dall 1881)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| synonym of Cochlespira | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Clathrodrillia sp.
Dall 1918
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Amarophos sp.
Woodring 1964
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8 specimens | ||||||
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? Cymatophos sp.
Pilsbry and Olsson 1941
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices sp.
Monfort 1810
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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Crassispira (Crassispira) sp.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Panama | State/province: | Bocas |
| Coordinates: | 9.1° North, 81.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.5° North, 80.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 6.1 Ma (other)6.5 to 5.6 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Bocas del Toro | Formation: | Nancy Point | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Nancy Point Fm is conformable with the Tobabe Fm below and the Shark Hole Point Fm above. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 8.2-5.6 Ma, Late Miocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 6.5-5.6 Ma. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation,shelly/skeletal unlithified silty sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal poorly lithified argillaceous,carbonaceous siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 27), consists of massive, pervasively bioturbated, shelly, muddy, and silty sandstone, muddy siltstone, with scattered molluscs, leaves, and plant fragments. | |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 94), outer neritic, estimated depth of 175 m. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| 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: | NMB | ||
| Collectors: | Jung et al. | Collection dates: | 1988 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, D. Geary & L. Anderson, 7.6.1988. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB), | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMB Loc. 17860 | ||
| Database number: | 61350 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-06-05 22:14:37 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-06-05 22:14:37 |
| 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] |