Also known as NMB Loc. 17835
Where: Panama (9.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: NN17-NN18 nannofossil zone, Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 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: offshore; lithified siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
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 91912: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.10.2009, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Tubothalamea | |
Spiroloculina antillarum d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Hauerina fragilissima, Quinqueloculina "sp. D", Quinqueloculina lamarckiana, Sigmoilopsis schlumbergeri, Miliolinella californica, Triloculina trigonula
Quinqueloculina "sp. D" d'Orbigny 1826
Quinqueloculina lamarckiana d'Orbigny 1839
Triloculina trigonula Lamarck 1804 | |
Cornuspira planorbis Schultze 1854 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Melonis barleeanum Williamson 1858 | |
Hanzawaia concentrica, Rosalina globularis, Valvulineria palmerae, Discorbina patelliformis, Discorbis sp., Epistominella vitrea
Rosalina globularis d'Orbigny 1826
Discorbis sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globorotalia miocenica, "Globorotalia tosaensis" = Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) tosaensis, Globorotalia crassaformis, "Globorotalia pseudomiocenica" = Globorotalia (Menardella) pseudomiocenica, Neogloboquadrina humerosa, Neogloboquadrina acostaensis
"Globorotalia tosaensis" = Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) tosaensis Takayanagi and Saito 1962
Globorotalia crassaformis Galloway and Wissler 1927
"Globorotalia pseudomiocenica" = Globorotalia (Menardella) pseudomiocenica Bolli and Bermudez 1965
Neogloboquadrina humerosa Takayanagi and Saito 1962
Neogloboquadrina acostaensis Blow 1959 | |
Globigerinita glutinata Egger 1893 | |
"Globigerina apertura" = Globoturborotalita apertura, "Globigerina decoraperta" = Globoturborotalita decoraperta, Orbulina universa, Sphaeroidinella dehiscens, Globigerinoides obliquus, Globigerinoides conglobatus, Globigerinoides ruber, Globigerinella aequilateralis, "Globigerinoides sacculifer" = Trilobatus sacculifer, Globigerina bulloides, Globigerina falconensis
"Globigerina apertura" = Globoturborotalita apertura Cushman 1918
"Globigerina decoraperta" = Globoturborotalita decoraperta Takayanagi and Saito 1962
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny 1839
Sphaeroidinella dehiscens Parker and Jones 1865
Globigerinoides obliquus Bolli 1957
Globigerinoides conglobatus Brady 1879
Globigerinoides ruber d'Orbigny 1839
Globigerinella aequilateralis Brady 1879
"Globigerinoides sacculifer" = Trilobatus sacculifer Brady 1877
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny 1826
Globigerina falconensis Blow 1959 | |
Sagrina pulchella d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Amphistegina gibbosa d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Cancris sagra Cushman and Todd 1942 | |
Elphidium discoidale d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Anthozoa | |
Schizocyathus fissilis Pourtales 1874 stony coral | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Discoporella "n. sp. 3", Discoporella "n. sp. 5", Discoporella "n. sp. 6", Vibracellina laxibasis, Cupuladria aff. canariensis, Cupuladria "n. sp. 6", Cupuladria biporosa, Cupuladria aff. biporosa
Discoporella "n. sp. 3" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852
Cupuladria "n. sp. 6" Canu and Basler 1919
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923 | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Radimella postovata ostracod | |
Argilloecia sp. ostracod | |
Heinia sp. ostracod | |
Krithe spp. Brady et al. 1874 ostracod | |
Paracytheridea sp. Muller 1894 ostracod
Eucytherura sp. ostracod
Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
Kangarina sp. ostracod
Cytherura sp. ostracod | |
Bradleya acceptabilis ostracod | |
Caudites nipeensis ostracod | |
Loxocorniculum sp. Benson and Coleman 1963 ostracod | |
Munseyella sp. van Bold 1957 ostracod | |
Pellucistoma sp. ostracod | |
Bairdiidae indet. Sars 1888 ostracod |