Woodring Loc. 115b - Canal Zone [lower Culebra Fm]: Aquitanian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Adrana sp. Adams and Adams 1858
Woodring 1973 r category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Woodring 1973 r category
Subspecies: Anadaria (Rasia) dariensis progonica
Woodring 1973 c category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea cahobasensis (Pilsbry and Brown 1910)
Woodring 1982 f category
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Harvella sp. (Gray 1853)
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Woodring 1982 f category
Woodring 1982 r category
Subspecies: Clementia (Clementia) dariena dariena
Woodring 1982 r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Woodring 1982 f category
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Trochita sp. Schumacher 1817
Woodring 1973 r category
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Woodring 1959 c category
Gastropoda - Naticidae
? Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Woodring 1959 f category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Woodring 1970 r category
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.0° 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: 21.6 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Culebra Member:lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Culebra Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Cascadas agglomerate; reassigned to La Boca Fm in subsequent publications of Woodring (e.g., 1973, 1982), but further emended by Kirby et al. (2009) to the lower member of the Culebra Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limy sandstone
Environment:coastal 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 Arnold and MacDonald (1913). 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. Locality now unaccessible (submerged).
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for gastropoda.
Metadata
Also known as:USGS Loc. 6443
Database number:42608
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-03 10:55:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-03 10:55:19
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]
13236 W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [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]