PPP# 1977 - Valiente Peninsula [Shark Hole Fm]: Zanclean, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Fissidentalium sp. Fischer 1885
45 specimens
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Miraclathurella sp. Woodring 1928
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Echinophoria hadra (Woodring and Olsson 1957)
Beu 2010 2 specimens
Sconsia grayi Adams 1855
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
3 specimens
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928
22 specimens
Gastropoda - Perissityidae
Amarophos sp. Woodring 1964
4 specimens
Strombina (Lirastrombina) sp. Jung 1989
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777
2 specimens
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas
Coordinates: 9.1° North, 81.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.5° North, 81.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:4.4 Ma (other)5.2 to 3.6 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bocas del Toro Formation:Shark Hole Point
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Shark Hole Point Fm conformably overlies the Nancy Point Fm and is overlain by an unnamed sequence of volcaniclastics. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 5.3-3.5 Ma, Early Pliocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 5.2-3.6 Ma.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,micaceous,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified argillaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 28), micaceous, clayey siltstone that is pervasively bioturbated and rich in large scaphopods.
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:BMNH,NMB,USNM
Collection method comments: COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 6/6/88. 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. 17855
Database number:79859
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-25 18:40:01 Last modified:2012-12-06 22:25:26
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-25 18:40:01
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:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]