Also known as NMB# 17631; 87-29-02
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Cayo Agua Fm is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), 3.5 MY; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/11/87. 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 61339: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Tesseracme sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Amaea (Scalina) sp." = Scalina, Epitonium sp.
"Amaea (Scalina) sp." = Scalina Conrad 1865 wentletrap
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Modulus sp. Gray 1842 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Carinodrillia sp. Dall 1919 snail
Miraclathurella sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail | |
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus Lea 1843 worm shell | |
"Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis
"Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis Mörch 1852 snail | |
Malea sp. Valenciennes 1833 tun shell | |
? Cypraeidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 cowry | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp., Ancilla sp., Olivella (Dactylidella) sp., Olivella (Macgintiella) sp., Olivella (Olivella) sp.
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799 olive snail
Olivella (Dactylidella) sp. Woodring 1928 olive snail
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Olivella (Olivella) sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
Agatrix sp. Petit 1967 nutmeg | |
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Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817 murex snail
Typhinae indet. Cossmann 1903 murex snail | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
? Kurtziella sp. Dall 1918 snail | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945 snail | |
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850 snail
Meioceras sp. Carpenter 1858 snail | |
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916 snail
"Odostomia" sp. Fleming 1817 snail | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial
Spirolaxis sp. Monterosato 1913 snail | |
Acteon sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail | |
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791 snail
Styliola sp. Gray 1850 snail
Creseis sp. Rang 1828 snail
Hyalocylis sp. Fol 1875 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Leionucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam | |
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946 clam | |
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
Martesia sp. Sowerby 1824 clam | |
Juliacorbula sp. Olsson 1953 clam
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
"Ventricolaria sp." = Globivenus, Lirophora sp.
"Ventricolaria sp." = Globivenus Coen 1934 venus clam
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863 venus clam | |
Tellina (Phyllodina) sp. Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840 cockle
Trigoniocardia sp. Dall 1900 cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Carditidae indet. Fleming 1820 clam | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
? Limaria sp. Link 1807 file clam | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897 mud scallop | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Hyotissa sp. Stenzel 1971 oyster | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
"Eontia sp." = Noetia (Eontia)
"Eontia sp." = Noetia (Eontia) MacNeil 1937 clam | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Discoporella "n. sp. 6", Discoporella "n. sp. 7", Cupuladria aff. canariensis, Cupuladria biporosa, Cupuladria aff. biporosa
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 7" d'Orbigny 1852
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923 | |
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea altispina Cairns 1995 stony coral | |
Paracyathus adetos n. sp. Cairns 1995 stony coral
Oxysmilia pliocenica Cairns 1995 stony coral
Antillocyathus gracilis Cairns 1995 stony coral |