PPP# 411 Valiente Peninsula [Nancy Point Fm]: Messinian, Panama
collected by Jung et al. 1988

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Fissidentalium sp. Fischer 1885
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Volvarina sp. (Hinds 1844)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Uromitra sp. Bellardi 1887
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas
Coordinates: 9.1° North, 81.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Messinian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Messinian
Age range of interval: 7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 6.1 Ma (other)6.5 to 5.6 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bocas del Toro Formation:Nancy Point
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Nancy Point Fm is conformable with the Tobabe Fm below and the Shark Hole Point Fm above. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 8.2-5.6 Ma, Late Miocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 6.5-5.6 Ma. Local Section name, Valiente.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,shelly/skeletal unlithified silty sandstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified argillaceous,carbonaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 27), consists of massive, pervasively bioturbated, shelly, muddy, and silty sandstone, muddy siltstone, with scattered molluscs, leaves, and plant fragments.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 94), outer neritic, estimated depth of 175 m.
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:Jung et al. Collection dates:1988
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, D. Geary & L. Anderson, 7.6.1988. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and 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. 17861
Database number:79795
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-24 13:14:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-24 13:14:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
17667. L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]