PRI Pitt Coll. - Sabanita [lower Gatun Fm]: Tortonian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
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Decapoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Thecostraca
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Cirripedia indet.
Rafinesque 1816
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Hyotissa haitensis
(Sowerby 1850)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia simplex
d'Orbigny 1845
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Leptopecten eucomia
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Rasia) fissicosta
(Spieker 1922)
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26 specimens | |||||||||
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Anadara (Rasia) sechurana
(Olsson 1932)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anadara (Rasia) dariensis
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) elassa
Woodring 1982
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Anodontia (Pegophysema) janus
(Dall 1903)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caryocorbula oropendula
(Olsson 1922)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Psammotreta hadra
Woodring 1982
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense
(Gabb 1873)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Lamelliconcha cora
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Costacallista leiotera
Woodring 1982
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Clementia (Clementia) dariensis
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Dosinia (Dosinia) delicatissima
(Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
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18 specimens | |||||||||
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Chionopsis tegulum
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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13 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis
(Röding 1798)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Serpulorbis granifera
(Say 1824)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices stanislasmeunieri
Maury 1917
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88 specimens | |||||||||
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Stigmaulax guppiana
(Toula 1909)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Personidae
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Distorsio decussatus
(Valenciennes 1832)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Tonnidae
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Malea camura
Guppy 1866
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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= Malea ringens
Swainson 1822
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Beu 2010 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Echinophoria sp.
Sacco 1890
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bursidae
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Bursa (Columbellina) caelata
(Broderip 1833)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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= Bursa rugosa
Sowerby 1835
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Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Clathrodrillia sp.
Dall 1918
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Conus burckhardti
Bose 1906
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Conus aemulator
Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Strioterebrum spiriferum
(Dall 1895)
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20 specimens | |||||||||
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Panaterebra cucurupiensis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Oreoterebra sp.
Olsson 1967
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117 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Polystira sp.
Woodring 1928
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mitridae
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Subcancilla dariensis
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Eupleura thompsoni
Woodring 1959
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39 specimens | |||||||||
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Murex (Murex) sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Cancellaria (Euclia) dinata
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18 specimens | |||||||||
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Cancellaria (Euclia) sp.
(Adams and Adams 1854)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Cancellaria (Euclia) codazzii
(Anderson 1929)
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83 specimens | |||||||||
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Cancellaria (Pyruclia) sp.
Olsson 1932
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Cancellaria (Bivetiella) epistomifera
(Guppy 1876)
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26 specimens | |||||||||
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= Bivetiella dariena
Toula 1908
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Landau et al. 2012 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva (Oliva) gatunensis
(Toula 1908)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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16 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Nicema amara
Woodring 1964
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Hanetia dalli
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
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Cymatophos veatchi
(Olsson 1922)
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164 specimens | |||||||||
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Antillophos candeanus
(d'Orbigny 1842)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula plana
Say 1822
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp.
Schumacher 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Crucibulum (Dispotaea) springvaleense
(Rutsch 1942)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella maturacana
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33 specimens | |||||||||
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Turritella gatunensis
Conrad 1857
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.3° North, 79.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.1° North, 78.4° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 11.5 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gatun | Member: | lower Gatun | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The Gatun Fm rests unconformably on formations of different ages in different parts of the Panama Canal Basin. To the east of Colon, the Gatun Fm rests nonconformably on unamed Cretaceous volcanics. To the west of Colon, including several islands in Lake Gatun, the Gatun Fm rests with angular unconformity on the upper Oligocene Caimito Fm. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy (see Collins and Coates, 1999). AGE: Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 11.5 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified "siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Not recorded, but certainly silciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of observation of specimens. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. (1999), open, inner neritic. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | PRI |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: B. & L. Pitt. REPOSITORIES: PRI, Ithaca. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Base off of older literature (Woodring, 1957-1980), and therefore variable in quality and resolution. IDENTIFIER A. Hendy and C. Ferguson. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | GA-9 | ||
| Database number: | 82116 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-23 12:39:17 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-07-23 12:39:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19909. | A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 30037 | A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 36423 | B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 43491 | B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |