Woodring Loc. 71 - Madden Basin [Emperador Limestone]: Aquitanian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Woodring 1982 R category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Woodring 1982 R category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Woodring 1982 R category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Woodring 1982 R category
Woodring 1982 R category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Woodring 1982 F category
SUBSPECIES: Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense dominicense
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
Woodring 1982 R category
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Woodring 1959 R category
Subspecies: Ficus cf. carbesea micronematica
Gastropoda - Thersiteidae
Orthaulax cf. pugnax (Heilprin 1887)
Woodring 1959 R category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Xancus cf. validus (Sowerby 1850)
Woodring 1973
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Woodring 1959 R category
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.1° North, 79.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Aquitanian
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 20.45 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 20.5 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Culebra Member:Emperador Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Emperador Limestone Member of the La Boca Formation. Orginally placed in Caimito, but emended by Woodring (1970), and then Kirby et al. (2009). AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: Collected by Schultz and Woodring (1947). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for gastropoda.
Metadata
Also known as:USGS Loc. 16945
Database number:42603
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-03 08:39:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-03 08:39:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11306. W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

43691 M. X. Kirby, D. S. Jones, and B. J. MacFadden. 2009. Lower Miocene stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and its bearing on the Central American Peninula. PLoS One 3(7):1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11372 W. P. Woodring. 1959. Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
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]