PPP# 17 - Mount Hope [upper Gatun Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.3° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: upper Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• LITHOSRATIGRAPHY: From the Gatun Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Miocene in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From upper part of the Gatun Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siltstone

• No specific environmental data presented.
• LITHOLOGY: Siltstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of observed specimens.

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1986

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: 1/3/86. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145529: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for fish. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature. Only genus-level identifications.
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unclassified
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Cassidulina laevigata, Cassidulina subglobosa
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium mexicanum
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
Trifarina eximia, Trifarina occidentalis, Uvigerina peregrina
 Buliminacea - Reusselidae
Reussella spinulosa
 Discorbacea - Bagginidae
Cancris sagra
Cancris sagra Cushman and Todd 1942
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
Bolivina merecuani, Bolivina paula, Bolivina sp., Bolivina striatula, Bolivina subaenariensis, Bolivina tortuosa, Bolivina pisciformis
Bolivina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Bolivina pisciformis Calloway and Morrey 1929
 Rotaliina - Fursenkoinidae
Fursenkoina pontoni
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Ammonia beccarii
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonionella atlantica, Nonionella basiloba, Nonionella sp.
Nonionella sp. Cushman 1926
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Rosalina subaraucana, Hanzawaia concentrica, Epistominella vitrea
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Sigmoilina tenuis
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina calcar, Saracenaria vaughani
Actinopteri
 Ophidiiformes -
Brotula sp.