PPP 2235: Zanclean - Piacenzian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Myctophiformes
- Myctophidae
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Geography
| Country: | Panama | State/province: | Bocas del Toro |
| Coordinates: | 9.2° North, 82.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.6° North, 81.0° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean - Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean - Piacenzian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Bocas del Toro | Formation: | Cayo Agua | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| 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; Nannoplankton zone NN12-15; also contains the planktonic foraminifers Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 64.25 m in section 17 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
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMB Loc. 18733 | ||
| Database number: | 219206 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-03-31 12:30:14 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-03-31 12:30:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 76158. | W. Schwarzhans and O. Aguilera. 2013. Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America. Paleo Ichthyologica 13:83-150 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |