Water Cay [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama
collected by Olsson

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten gatunensis (Toula 1909)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea megodon Hanley 1846
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula vieta Guppy 1866
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama congregata Conrad 1833
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Antigona multicostata (Sowerby 1835)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina rovala n. sp. Olsson 1922
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica guppyana (Toula 1909)
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra spirifera (Dall 1895)
Terebra gausapata Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Scobinella morierei (Cossmann 1913)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus proteus Hwass 1792
Conus veatchi Olsson 1922
Conus imitator Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Conus concavitectum Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina cricamola n. sp. Olsson 1922
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex messorius Sowerby 1841
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta alfaroi Dall 1912
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Gastropoda - Cassidae
    = Sconsia grayi Adams 1855
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.2° North, 82.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.5° North, 81.3° West (Wright 2013)
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: 3.6 - 2.58 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
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collectors:Olsson
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Olsson, A. REPOSITORY: PRI.
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: antiquated nomenclature, with species-level identifications. COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda.
Metadata
Database number:134663
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-12 06:23:22 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-12 06:23:22
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
43229. A. A. Olsson. 1922. The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(39):1-309 [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]