Woodring 107 - Canal Zone [upper Culebra Fm]: Burdigalian, Panama
collected by MacDonald & Vaughan 1911
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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| Woodring 1973 | f category | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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unclassified
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Phacoides cf. pectinata
Gmelin 1791
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Woodring 1982 | r category | ||||||||
| Subspecies: Phacoides cf. pectinata domingensis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.0° North, 79.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 19.5 Ma (Sr isotope) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Culebra | Member: | upper | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Culebra Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Cascadas agglomerate; emended by Kirby et al. (2009) to the upper member of the Culebra Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Burdigalian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within member. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of figured specimens, and outcrop observations. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | MacDonald & Vaughan | Collection dates: | 1911 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: MacDonald and Vaughan (1911). REPOSITORY: USNM. | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | USGS Loc. 6012d | ||
| Database number: | 42612 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-08-03 10:56:39 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2005-08-03 10:56:39 |
| 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] | |
| 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] |