PPP# 297 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Alabina sp.
Dall 1902
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Olivella (Macgintiella) sp.
Olsson 1956
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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
- Muricidae
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Vitularia sp.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) sp.
(Swainson 1830)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Phyllonotus | ||||||||||
Haustellum sp.
Schumacher 1817
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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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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Bursidae
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Marsupina bufo
(BruguiƩre 1792)
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Beu 2010 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Natica (Natica) sp.
Scopoli 1777
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Rissoidae
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Alvania sp.
Risso 1826
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Serpulorbis sp.
Sasso 1827
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vitrinellidae
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Cyclostremiscus sp.
Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ringiculidae
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Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp.
(Sacco 1892)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Turbonillinae indet.
Bronn 1849
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Retusidae
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Volvulella (Volvulella) sp.
Newton 1891
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Sulcoretusa sp.
Burch 1945
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cavoliniidae
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Styliola sp.
Gray 1850
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Limacinidae
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Limacina sp.
Bosc 1817
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Tucetona sp.
Iredale 1939
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Propeamussiidae
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Cyclopecten sp.
Verrill 1897
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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? Argopecten sp.
Monterosato 1889
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Malleidae
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Isognomon sp.
Lightfoot 1786
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Crenellidae
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Crenella sp.
Brown 1827
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Parvilucina sp.
(Dall 1901)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
sensu lato | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Verticordiidae
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Trigonulina sp.
d'Orbigny 1946
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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? Caryocorbula sp.
(Gardner 1926)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Gouldia sp.
Adams 1847
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13 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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? Tellina sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassinella sp.
Guppy 1874
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23 specimens | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Gadilida
- Gadilidae
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Cadulus sp.
Philippi 1844
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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] |