Also known as NMB Loc. 17647
Where: Colon, Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The Gatun Fm rests unconformably on formations of different ages in different parts of the Panama Canal Basin. To the east of Colon, the Gatun Fm rests nonconformably on unamed Cretaceous volcanics. To the west of Colon, including several islands in Lake Gatun, the Gatun Fm rests with angular unconformity on the upper Oligocene Caimito Fm. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: The Middle Gatun Fm is early Late Miocene (8.8-8.3 MA) according to Collins et al. (1999). Local section name: Sabanita to Payardi. AGE: Tortonian based on more recent dating (Hendy, 2012). Sr dating for nearby sections indicates an age of approximately 11.1 Ma (Hendy, unpublished data).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, bioturbated siltstone and unlithified, bioturbated siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff) collected on 8/25/87. REPOSITORIES: 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 79792: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 24.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail
Niso sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail
Bittium sp. Gray 1847 cerith snail | |
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
Olivella (Niteoliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Persicula sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Cymatophos sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 true whelk | |
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Euclia dinota1, Bivetiella dariena2, ? Narona sp., Narona barystoma2, Pyruclia tweedledee2, Pyruclia tweedledum1
? Narona sp. Adams and Adams 1854 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Kurtziella (Kurtziella) sp. Dall 1918 snail
Dolostoma sp. Woodring 1970 snail
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Cyclostremiscus (Ponocyclus) sp. Pilsbry 1953 snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850 snail | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
? Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail | |
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891 snail | |
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873 snail
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Eulimastoma sp., Odostomia sp., Turbonillinae indet., Eulimella (Eulimella) sp., Pyramidellinae indet.
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916 snail
Odostomia sp. Fleming 1817 snail
Turbonillinae indet. Bronn 1849 snail
Eulimella (Eulimella) sp. Forbes and MacAndrew 1846 snail
Pyramidellinae indet. Gray 1840 snail | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Acteon sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) sp. Stewart 1930 clam
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam
Chionopsis sp. Olsson 1932 venus clam
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863 venus clam | |
? Mactrellona sp. Marks 1915 clam
Harvella sp. Gray 1853 clam | |
Alveinus sp. Conrad 1865 clam | |
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Ervilia sp. Turton 1822 clam | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Anadara (Potiarca) sp. Iredale 1939 ark
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
"Pectunculina sp." = Limopsis
"Pectunculina sp." = Limopsis Sassi 1827 clam | |
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Leptopecten sp. Verrill 1897 scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell |