PPP# 326 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm]: Piacenzian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Cairns 1995
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella (Lamarck 1816)
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Calpensiidae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Biflustra savartii (Audouin 1826)
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cheiloporinidae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Landau et al. 2012 1 specimen
Landau et al. 2012 1 specimen
Landau et al. 2012 1 specimen
Euclia leuzingeri (Rutsch 1934)
Landau et al. 2012 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Marsupina bufo (Bruguiére 1792)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
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:small collection
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: lithified silty sandstone
Lithology description: Cayo Agua Formation: bioturbated gray blue, muddy, silty lithic sandstone with common horizons of abundant thick shelled mollusks and ahermatypic corals
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: depth 37-46 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:NMB Loc. 17822
Database number:91901
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-10-23 05:55:21 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-23 05:55:21
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:

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]
30941 S. D. Cairns. 1995. New records of azooxanthellate stony corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia and Stylasteridae) from the Neogene of Panama and Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3):533-550 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]
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]
43469 B. D. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):311-339 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]