Woodring Loc. 144d - eastern area [middle Gatun Fm]: Tortonian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis
(Toula 1909)
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F category | |||||||||
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Varicorbula islatrinitatis
(Maury 1925)
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A category | |||||||||
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Caryocorbula prenasuta
(Olsson 1964)
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R category | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Harvella elegans
(Sowerby 1825)
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R category | |||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Harvella elegans elegans | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Ervilia valhosierr
Gardner 1928
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F category | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia (Glyptoactis) aversa
(Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)
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R category | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Amusium toulae
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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R category | |||||||||
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Flabellipecten gatunensis
(Toula 1909)
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R category | |||||||||
| recombined as Leopecten gatunensis | ||||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Flabellipecten gatunensis gatunensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea equestris
Say 1834
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F category | |||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Ostrea equestris heothina | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata
(Gmelin 1791)
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Woodring 1973 | R category | ||||||||
| recombined as Tucetona pectinata | ||||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata canalis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.3° North, 79.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.0° North, 78.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 10.1 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gatun | Member: | middle Gatun | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle part of the Gatun Formation. The Gatun Formation is sibdivided into three faunal zones (proposed by Thomson and Keen, 1946): lower, middle, and upper. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy (see Collins and Coates, 1999), refined by enterer to Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 10.1 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine unlithified silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Soft, silty fine-grained sandstone. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: No specific environmental data presented. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publications, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | USGS 6334 | ||
| Database number: | 93170 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-06 10:47:09 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-06 10:47:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13359. | W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 13235 | W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |