PPP# 200 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. (Sacco 1892)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Niso sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827
1 specimen
? Petaloconchus sp. (Lea 1843)
4 specimens
original and current combination Petaloconchus
Petaloconchus sp. (Lea 1843)
1 specimen
original and current combination Petaloconchus
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847
15 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
8 specimens
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
3 specimens
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956
11 specimens
Olivella (Minioliva) sp. Olsson 1956
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Metula sp. Adams and Adams 1853
3 specimens
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928
61 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria (Fasciolaria) sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928
1 specimen
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955
12 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928
18 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) sp. Gabb 1872
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) sp. (Dall 1881)
2 specimens
synonym of Cochlespira
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria petiti (Olsson 1967)
Landau et al. 2012 10 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica (Naticarius) sp. (Dumeril 1806)
1 specimen
original and current combination Naticarius
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
? Amusium sp. (Röding 1798)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) sp. (Gray 1857)
17 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
Mamillopora informal n. sp. 2
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Cupuladria aff. canariensis
1 specimen
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
10 specimens
Discoporella informal n. sp. 5
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas
Coordinates: 9.2° North, 82.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° North, 82.0° 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:3.6 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); direct date extrapolated 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 Loc. 17634
Database number:79774
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-23 14:14:22 Last modified:2012-12-06 22:05:24
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-23 14:14:22
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:

43469 B. D. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):311-339 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]