PPP# 204 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Zanclean, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Buffonellodidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
10 specimens
10 specimens
1 specimen
10 specimens
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
10 specimens
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
1 specimen
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
1 specimen
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Tesseracme sp. Pilsbry 1898
3 specimens
17 specimens
sensu lato
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
40 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
4 specimens
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
58 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810
1 specimen
Amusium sp. (Röding 1798)
1 specimen
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
105 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Hyotissa sp. Stenzel 1971
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
66 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardites sp. Link 1807
11 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
117 specimens
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
51 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
1 specimen
Arcinella sp. Schumacher 1817
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. (Grant and Gale 1931)
15 specimens
Pleiorytis sp. Conrad 1862
1 specimen
Pitar sp. Römer 1857
1 specimen
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Periglypta sp. Jukes-Browne 1914
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
9 specimens
sensu lato
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
22 specimens
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Amaea (Scalina) sp. (Conrad 1865)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
12 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
261 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
53 specimens
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850
17 specimens
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858
20 specimens
Gastropoda - Tornidae
1 specimen
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853
12 specimens
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Anticlimax (? Anticlimax) sp. Pilsbry and McGinty 1946
1 specimen
Anticlimax sp. Pilsbry and McGinty 1946
1 specimen
Anticlimax (Subclimax) sp. Pilsbry and McGinty 1946
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
1 specimen
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
2 specimens
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Phalium (Tylocassis) sp. (Woodring 1928)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea sp. Valenciennes 1833
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853
15 specimens
Niso sp. Risso 1826
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
? Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
? Parviturbo sp. Pilsbry and McGinty 1945
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Clio sp. Linnaeus 1767
1 specimen
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791
2 specimens
Creseis sp. Rang 1828
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Retusidae
8 specimens
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
15 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873
2 specimens
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
41 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
12 specimens
1 specimen
? Ondina sp. de Folin 1870
2 specimens
Odostomia sp. Fleming 1817
3 specimens
18 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
35 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Spirolaxis sp. Monterosato 1913
1 specimen
Pseudotorinia sp. Sacco 1892
6 specimens
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798
7 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas del Toro
Coordinates: 9.1° North, 82.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.6° North, 81.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Zanclean
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 4.3 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bocas del Toro Formation:Cayo Agua
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Cayo Agua Fm 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. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), no specific ages listed, but assumed to be similar to preceding and locally neighboring collections; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,shelly/skeletal,gray,blue poorly lithified argillaceous,silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: GENERAL 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.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 94), open inner neritic, estimated depth of 30 m.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
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
Collection method comments: COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/11/87. REPOSITORIES: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. IDENTIFIER: presumably identified by J. Jackson, J. Todd, H. Fortunato, and P. Jung.
Metadata
Database number:79982
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 14:01:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-31 14:01:58
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]