Also known as NMB Loc. 18401
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• AGE: early Late Pliocene, 3.5-3.6 Ma; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91902: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.10.2009, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Rhynchozoon rostratum Busk 1855 | |
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852
Biflustra savartii Audouin 1826 | |
Nellia tenella Lamarck 1816 | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytherelloidea sp. Alexander 1929 ostracod
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Loxoconcha sp. Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Krithe sp. Brady et al. 1874 ostracod | |
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Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Cativella navis ostracod
Cativella pulleyi ostracod | |
Pellucistoma sp. ostracod | |
Radimella ovata ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
Antillocyathus gracilis n. sp. Cairns 1995 stony coral
Paracyathus adetos Cairns 1995 stony coral | |
Nodosariata | |
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784 | |
Globothalamea | |
Gyroidina "sp. A" d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Melonis barleeanum Williamson 1858 | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Sagrina pulchella d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Cancris sagra Cushman and Todd 1942 | |
Oolina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Amphistegina gibbosa d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Elphidium discoidale d'Orbigny 1839 | |