PPP# 198 - Cayo Agua [Cayo Agua Fm] (Pliocene of Panama)

Also known as NMB# 17632; 87-29-04

Where: Bocas, Panama (9.2° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 82.1° 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), no specific ages listed, but assumed to be similar to preceding and locally neighboring collections; 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

• ENVIRONMENT: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 94), open inner neritic, estimated depth of 30 m.
• GENERAL LITHOLOGY: from Collins et al. 1999 (p. 29), pervasively bioturbated gray blue, muddy, silty, lithic sandstone with comon horizons of abundant thick shelled mollusks and ahermatypic corals.

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 61341: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. IDENTIFIER: presumably identified by J. Jackson, J. Todd, H. Fortunato, and P. Jung.
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus adetos Cairns 1995 stony coral
Antillocyathus gracilis Cairns 1995 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Guynia annulata Duncan 1872 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia pittieri Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955 snail
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Oreoterebra) sp. Olsson 1967 auger snail
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Sconsia sp., "Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847 snail
"Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis Mörch 1852 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
Sinum sp. Röding 1798 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus Lea 1843 worm shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Tornidae
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945 snail
? Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945 snail
 Opisthobranchia - Haminoeidae
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp. Woodring 1925 clam
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897 scallop
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium sp. Mörch 1853 cockle
sensu-lato
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina)
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Leionucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam
Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
sensu-lato