PPP# 296 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862
5 specimens
2 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
2 specimens
sensu lato
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Adrana sp. Adams and Adams 1858
1 specimen
Costelloleda sp. Hertlein and Strong 1940
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
75 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Amusium sp. (Röding 1798)
4 specimens
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886
2 specimens
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parvilucina sp. (Dall 1901)
26 specimens
sensu lato
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
29 specimens
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
96 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
? Spisula sp. Gray 1837
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. (Grant and Gale 1931)
6 specimens
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847
3 specimens
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
4 specimens
Chionopsis sp. Olsson 1932
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta sp. Bronn 1831
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
10 specimens
sensu lato
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840
13 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia sp. Turton 1822
34 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Strigilla sp. Turton 1822
31 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Amaea (Scalina) sp. (Conrad 1865)
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
127 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Modulidae
Psammodulus sp. Collins 1934
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
1 specimen
Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
34 specimens
Natica (Naticarius) sp. (Dumeril 1806)
18 specimens
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777
38 specimens
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus sp. Röding 1798
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
27 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Hastula sp. Adams and Adams 1853
3 specimens
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
34 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
1 specimen
Lepicythara sp. Olsson 1964
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
13 specimens
Mazatlania sp. Dall 1913
2 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
2 specimens
? Cantharus sp. Röding 1798
2 specimens
unclassified
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
? Metaphos sp. Olsson 1964
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
9 specimens
sensu lato
Calophos sp. Woodring 1964
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
2 specimens
? Aphera sp. Adams and Adams 1854
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Persicula sp. Schumacher 1817
57 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Volvarina sp. (Hinds 1844)
23 specimens
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
6 specimens
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Ancilla (Eburna) sp. (Lamarck 1801)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
556 specimens
13 specimens
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
41 specimens
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
? Fusiturricula sp. Woodring 1928
1 specimen
Uromitra sp. Bellardi 1887
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa sp. Roding 1798
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Triviidae
Erato sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Alvania sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Niso sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
13 specimens
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791
1 specimen
Creseis sp. Rang 1828
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Retusidae
3 specimens
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873
3 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
62 specimens
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia sp. Issel 1869
30 specimens
Neritina sp. Lamarck 1816
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cocculinidae
? Cocculina sp. Dall 1882
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916
1 specimen
unclassified
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Ugartea sp. Bartsch 1917
1 specimen
4 specimens
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
2 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
11 specimens
Pseudotorinia sp. Sacco 1892
10 specimens
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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: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. 17811
Database number:79999
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 20:22:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-31 20:22:42
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]