PPP# 294 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama
collected 1988

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
10 specimens
10 specimens
10 specimens
10 specimens
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
10 specimens
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Biflustra savartii (Audouin 1826)
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
10 specimens
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Stomachetosellidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Scaphopoda
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862
1 specimen
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
1 specimen
sensu lato
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Arca) sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
2 specimens
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
11 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
1 specimen
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus sp. Guettard 1770
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
2 specimens
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
38 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Montacutidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Abra sp. Lamarck 1818
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
19 specimens
Gastropoda - Atlantidae
Atlanta sp. Lesueur 1817
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Nannodiella sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Kurtzia sp. Bartsch 1934
1 specimen
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
3 specimens
sensu lato
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
sensu lato
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Cystiscus sp. Stimpson 1865
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
13 specimens
1 specimen
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Knefastia sp. Dall 1919
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Haminoeidae
Atys sp. Montfort 1810
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Retusidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae
? Acmaea sp. Eschscholtz 1830
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Heliacus sp. d'Orbigny 1842
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas
Coordinates: 9.2° North, 82.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.5° North, 81.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Piacenzian
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 3.6 Ma (other)3.6 to 3.5 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); direct date extrapolated 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 dates:1988
Collection method comments: COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 5/30/88. 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
Also known as:NMB Loc. 17809
Database number:79983
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 14:22:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-31 14:22:16
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]

Secondary references:

43588 A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]