Also known as NMB# 17635
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• 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), no specific ages listed, but assumed to be similar to preceding and locally neighboring collections; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/11/87. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79777: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 23.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 7" d'Orbigny 1852 | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916 snail | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail | |
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail | |
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858 snail | |
Fasciolaria (Fasciolaria) sp. Lamarck 1799 tulip snail | |
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail
Euclia codazzii Anderson 1929 snail | |
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953 mitre shell | |
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955 snail
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) sp. Gabb 1872 snail | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799 olive snail | |
Knefastia sp. Dall 1919 ribbed mitre | |
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817 murex snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
"Tugurium sp." = Onustus
"Tugurium sp." = Onustus Swainson 1840 carrier shell | |
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus, Serpulorbis sp.
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus Lea 1843 worm shell
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell | |
Carinodrillia sp. Dall 1919 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
? Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897 scallop
Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop | |
? Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835 oyster | |
Hyotissa sp. Stenzel 1971 oyster | |
"Eontia sp." = Noetia (Eontia)
"Eontia sp." = Noetia (Eontia) MacNeil 1937 clam | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark
Anadara (Tosarca) sp. Noda 1965 ark | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863 venus clam | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam |