PPP# 295 - Cayo Agua - [Cayo Agua Fm): Piacenzian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella (Lamarck 1816)
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
10 specimens
10 specimens
10 specimens
10 specimens
1 specimen
10 specimens
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
100 specimens
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Candidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Biflustra savartii (Audouin 1826)
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Thalamoporellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
1 specimen
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cheiloporinidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Rhynchozoon sp. Hincks 1895
1 specimen
1 specimen
10 specimens
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Turbicellepora sp. Ryland 1963
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Stomachetosellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
Hippoporina sp. Neviani 1895
1 specimen
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
3 specimens
sensu lato
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
24 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
2 specimens
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
11 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Hyotissa sp. Stenzel 1971
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
17 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
16 specimens
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
32 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847
3 specimens
1 specimen
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840
3 specimens
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Abra sp. Lamarck 1818
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cardiomya sp. Adams 1864
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica (Naticarius) sp. (Dumeril 1806)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827
17 specimens
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Tugurium sp. Fischer 1880
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799
3 specimens
3 specimens
5 specimens
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Knefastia sp. Dall 1919
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Phalium (Tylocassis) sp. (Woodring 1928)
1 specimen
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea sp. Valenciennes 1833
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Hyalocylis sp. Fol 1875
1 specimen
Styliola sp. Gray 1850
1 specimen
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Limacinidae
Limacina sp. Bosc 1817
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Retusidae
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916
5 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama State/province:Bocas del Toro
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 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:BMNH,NMB,USNM
Collection method comments: COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 5/30/88. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and 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. 17810
Database number:79998
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 20:22:38 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-31 20:22:38
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]