PPP# 1203 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama
collected by Jung & Heitz 1993

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria petiti (Olsson 1967)
Jung 1989 10 specimens
Euclia codazzii (Anderson 1929)
Landau et al. 2012 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea goliath Pilsbry and Johnson 1917
Beu 2010 3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas del Toro
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 Nannofossil zone:  NN13-15
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
Local section:Cayo Agua, Punta Norte to Punta Tiburon Local bed:53 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cayo Agua Formation, which 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. AGE: Early Pliocene (Zanclean) in text; contains the planktonic foraminifer Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 53 m in section 19 of Coates & Collins (1999).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,shelly/skeletal,gray,blue poorly lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 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. LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text, but known to be poorly lithified by enterer; figured specimens appear to have been cleaned of sediment.
Environment:coastal indet.
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,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMB
Collectors:Jung & Heitz Collection dates:1993
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: P. Jung and A. Heitz, 8/3/93. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution.
Metadata
Also known as:NMB Loc. 18374; 93-13-01
Database number:135863
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-11-11 10:36:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-11-11 10:36:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]
42438 P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43469 B. D. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):311-339 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]