Woodring Loc. 129a - Galliard Cut [Emperador Limestone]: Aquitanian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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? Dosinia sp.
Scopoli 1777
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R category | ||||||
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Periglypta tarquinia
(Dall 1900)
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F category | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Woodring 1970 | R category | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.1° North, 79.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.04 - 20.45 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 20.5 Ma (Sr isotope) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Culebra | Member: | Emperador Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Emperador Limestone Member of the La Boca Formation. Orginally placed in Caimito, but emended by Woodring (1970), and then Kirby et al. (2009). AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Limestone | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 93243 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-08 13:39:10 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-08 13:39:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13359. | W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 43691 | M. X. Kirby, D. S. Jones, and B. J. MacFadden. 2009. Lower Miocene stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and its bearing on the Central American Peninula. PLoS One 3(7):1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 13236 | W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |