PPP# 1306 - Cativa [lower Gatun Fm]: Tortonian, Panama
collected by Heitz 1993

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Acorylus sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia sp. Turton 1822
Jung 1989 71 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Felaniella sp. Dall 1899
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kelliellidae
Alveinus sp. Conrad 1865
Jung 1989 46 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. (Grant and Gale 1931)
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Lirophora (Lirophora) sp. Conrad 1863
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Parastarte sp. Conrad 1862
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia sp. Gray 1837
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parvilucina sp. (Dall 1901)
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) sp. Stewart 1930
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp. (Woodring 1925)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara sp. Gray 1847
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Anadara (Sectiarca) sp. (Olsson 1961)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Anadara (Diluvarca) fissicosta (Spieker 1922)
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Anadara (Sectiarca) sechurana (Olsson 1932)
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Anadara (Potiarca) sp. (Iredale 1939)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Chrysallida sp. Carpenter 1856
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Acteon sp. Montfort 1810
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. (Sacco 1892)
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
Jung 1989 16 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) sp. (Say 1824)
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Crepidula (Ianacus) sp. (Mörch 1852)
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Niso sp. Risso 1826
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella (Niteoliva) sp. Olsson 1956
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nicema sp. Woodring 1964
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Solenosteira sp. Dall 1890
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Cymatophos sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941
Jung 1989 24 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Calophos sp. Woodring 1964
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Euclia alacertata Landau et al. 2012
2 specimens
Pyruclia tweedledee Landau et al. 2012
1 specimen
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Cancellaria mixta Landau et al. 2012
1 specimen
Massyla terryi (Olsson 1942)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Panaterebra) sp. Olsson 1967
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Kurtziella (Cryoturris) sp. (Woodring 1928)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Nannodiella sp. (Dall 1919)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa (Sowerby 1835)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio gatunensis (Toula 1909)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Teinostoma (Idioraphe) sp. (Pilsbry 1922)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Caecum sp. Fleming 1813
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae
Styliola sp. Gray 1850
Jung 1989 2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Colon
Coordinates: 9.4° North, 79.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° 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: 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 11.1 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gatun Member:lower Gatun
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gatun Fm, which regionally overlies the Caimito Fm or Mesozoic basement. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle member of the Gatun Formatio according to the author; the enterer considers this to be the lower member of the Gatun Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray unlithified siltstone
Secondary lithology:bioturbation unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: The lower 5m of the lower Gatun Formation consists of volcanic conglomerate, with 1-5cm clasts and a tuffaceous, arkoskic matrix, cross-bedded, laminated, tuffaceous siltstone and alternating laminated sandstone and siltstone, mostly deeply weathered. The overlying 40m (Section 1) consists of massive, grey-green, clayey siltstone, with minor claystone and fine sandstone units. zones of densely packed large concretions, pervasive bioturbation, and extensive thalassinoid burrow systems, as well as simple vertical and lateral hash-filled burrows. Shell hash of varying grain size and density is almost ubiquitous, as are units packed with diverse, whole mollusks.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. (1999), open, inner neritic.
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
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:NMB
Collectors:Heitz Collection dates:1993
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Antoine Heitz, 8/11/93. 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. 18390
Database number:136014
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-11-15 03:07:46 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-11-15 03:07:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43491. B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

42438 P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]