Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 80.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nancy Point Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Nancy Point Fm is conformable with the Tobabe Fm below and the Shark Hole Point Fm above. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 8.2-5.6 Ma, Late Miocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 6.5-5.6 Ma.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, carbonaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
• TAPHONOMY: No taphonomic data reported.
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: B. Landau. REPOSITORY:B. Landau personal collection.
Primary reference: B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111214: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Typhina expansa Sowerby 1874 murex snail | |
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Knefastia limonensis Olsson 1922 ribbed mitre | |
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