Also known as NMB Loc. 18667
Where: Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gatun Fm, which regionally overlies the Caimito Fm or Mesozoic basement. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle member of the Gatun Formatio according to the author; the enterer considers this to be the lower member of the Gatun Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected in 1995; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,
• COLLECTOR: 9/9/95. REPOSITORY: NMB, Basel, Switzerland.
Primary reference: O. Aguilera and D. R. de Aguilera. 1999. Bathymetric distribution of Miocene to Pleistocene Caribbean teleostean fishes from the coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357:251-269 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 145520: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Oliva (Oliva) gatunensis" = Oliva gatunensis1
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"Cruziturricula sp." = Pleurofusia (Cruziturricula)1
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Naticidae indet.1, Polinices stanislasmeunieri1, Neverita (Hypterita) sp.1, Natica (Natica) sp.1, Stigmaulax guppiana1
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Bivalvia | |
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Gouldia sp.1, "Agriopoma (Pitarella) sp." = Agriopoma1, Pitar (Pitar) sp.1, Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp.1, Lirophora (Lirophora) sp.1, Chionopsis sp.1
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Scaphopoda | |
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Malacostraca | |
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Actinopteri | |
Bregmaceros sp. Thompson 1840 | |
Porichthys sp. Girard 1854 toadfish | |
Apogon sp. Lacépède 1802 Cardinalfish | |
Gobiidae indet. Bonaparte 1832 goby | |
Diplectrum sp. Holbrook 1855 sand perch | |
Lonchopisthus sp. Myers 1935 | |
Mugil sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Trachurus sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Symphurus sp. flatfish | |
Citharichthys sp. Bleeker 1862 flatfish | |
Diaphus sp. Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1890 lanternfish | |
Rhynchoconger sp. Jordan and Hobbs 1925 conger eel
Ariosoma sp. Swainson 1838 conger eel |