PPP# 297 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Vitularia sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) sp. (Swainson 1830)
3 specimens
original and current combination Phyllonotus
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Marsupina bufo (BruguiƩre 1792)
Beu 2010 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Alvania sp. Risso 1826
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. (Sacco 1892)
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonillinae indet. Bronn 1849
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891
1 specimen
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae
Styliola sp. Gray 1850
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Limacinidae
Limacina sp. Bosc 1817
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
? Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parvilucina sp. (Dall 1901)
2 specimens
sensu lato
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
1 specimen
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847
13 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
23 specimens
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
14 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
sensu lato
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas
Coordinates: 9.2° North, 82.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° North, 81.8° 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:3.6 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), 5/30/88. 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. 17812
Database number:80000
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 20:22:43 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-31 20:22:43
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]