PPP# 63 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm] (Pliocene of Panama)

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

• depth 37-46 m
• Cayo Agua Formation: bioturbated gray blue, muddy, silty lithic sandstone with common horizons of abundant thick shelled mollusks and ahermatypic corals

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
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Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Haynesinidae
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
 Buliminacea - Reusselidae
 Buliminacea - Siphogenerinoididae
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
 Rotaliina - Siphoninidae
 Planorbulinacea - Cymbaloporidae
 Discorbacea - Bagginidae
Cancris sagra Cushman and Todd 1942
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina gibbosa d'Orbigny 1839
 Rotaliina - Fursenkoinidae
 Nodosariacea - Ellipsolagenidae
Oolina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus adetos Cairns 1995 stony coral
Antillocyathus gracilis n. sp. Cairns 1995 stony coral
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
 Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella Lamarck 1816
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod
Cytherelloidea sp. Alexander 1929 ostracod
 Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
Xestoleberis sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
originally entered as "Xestolebereis sp."
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Krithe sp. Brady et al. 1874 ostracod
 Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
Phlyctocythere sp. ostracod
originally entered as "Phylctocythere sp."
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
 Podocopida - Paradoxostomatidae
 Podocopida -