Also known as NMB Loc. 17833
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 81.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The upper and lower contacts of the formation are not exposed. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), not specified to Early or Late Pliocene; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999); age range also provided by Bybell (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, fine-grained, argillaceous sandstone and poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 6/4/88. 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 79988: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 31.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
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Gastropoda | |
Anisocycla (Saccoina) sp. Dall and Bartsch 1904 snail | |
Eulimella (Eulimella) sp., ? Eulimella (Eulimella) sp., Eulimella (Ebalina) sp., Besla sp., Pyramidellinae indet.
Eulimella (Eulimella) sp. Forbes and MacAndrew 1846 snail
? Eulimella (Eulimella) sp. Forbes and MacAndrew 1846 snail
Eulimella (Ebalina) sp. Thiele 1929 snail
Besla sp. Dall and Bartsch 1904 snail
Pyramidellinae indet. Gray 1840 snail | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail | |
Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847 snail | |
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817 murex snail | |
? Persicula sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
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Solenosteira sp. Dall 1890 true whelk
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis), Mitrella sp.
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis) Sacco 1890 snail
Mitrella sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
? Microdrillia sp. Casey 1903 snail | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid
Vaughanites sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Daphnella sp. Hinds 1844 snail | |
Nannodiella sp. Dall 1919 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Atlanta sp. Lesueur 1817 snail | |
Rissoidae indet. Gray 1847 snail
Alvania sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Microgaza sp. Dall 1881 top snail | |
"Atys (Aliculastrum) sp." = Aliculastrum
"Atys (Aliculastrum) sp." = Aliculastrum Pilsbry 1896 snail | |
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891 snail | |
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873 snail
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Limacina sp. Bosc 1817 snail
? Limacina sp. Bosc 1817 snail | |
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791 snail
Creseis sp. Rang 1828 snail
Styliola sp. Gray 1850 snail
Clio sp. Linnaeus 1767 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam | |
Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875 pointed nut clam
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897 mud scallop | |
"? Hawaiarca sp." = Barbatia (Hawaiarca), Anadara (Rasia) sp.
"? Hawaiarca sp." = Barbatia (Hawaiarca) Dall et al. 1938 clam
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
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Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946 clam | |
Halonympha sp. Dall and Smith 1886 clam | |
Poromya (Poromya) sp. Forbes 1844 clam | |
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Tellina (Phyllodina) sp. Dall 1900 tellin clam
Angulus sp. Megerle 1811 tellin clam | |
Abra sp. Lamarck 1818 abra | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Asterosmilia profunda Duncan 1864 stony coral |