TU 757 - Cativa [lower Gatun Fm]: Tortonian, Panama
collected by Vokes & Vokes

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Monoplex parthenopeus (von Salis Marschlins 1793)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Vokes 1973
    = Bursa rugosa Sowerby 1835
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Bursa rugosa (Sowerby 1835)
Beu 2010 53 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Eupleura thompsoni Woodring 1959
Vokes 1989
Vokes 1970
Gertman 1969
Vokes 1983
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Petit 1976
Landau et al. 2012
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Vokes 1969
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.4° North, 79.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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: 11.1 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gatun Member:lower Gatun
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gatun Fm, which regionally overlies the Caimito Fm or Mesozoic basement. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy (see Collins and Coates, 1999), refined by enterer to Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 11.1 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandy mudstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on observations of material.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:Vokes & Vokes
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to Trajana (Nassariidae) described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:92444
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-13 13:07:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-11-13 13:07:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31182. E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]

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]
31231 R. L. Gertman. 1969. Cenozoic Typhinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Western Atlantic region. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 7(4):143-192 [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]
31318 R. E. Petit. 1976. Notes on Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) - III. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 12(1-2):33-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31166 E. H. Vokes. 1969. The genus Trajana (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the new world. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 7(2):75-83 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31194 E. H. Vokes. 1970. Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part V - Pterynotus and Poirieria. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 8(1):1-50 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31315 E. H. Vokes. 1973. Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - XIV: On the occurrence of Bursa (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with comments on the genus. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 10(2):97-101 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31289 E. H. Vokes. 1983. Additions to the Typhinae (Gastropoda; Muricidae) of the Gatun Formation, Panama. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 17(3-4):123-130 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31203 E. H. Vokes. 1989. A new species of Eupleura (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Gatun Formation, Panama. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 22(4):118-122 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]