Also known as NMB Loc. 17628
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 81.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 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: deep-water; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, fine-grained, argillaceous sandstone and poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/8/87. 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 79772: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 23.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Asterosmilia profunda Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
Guynia annulata Duncan 1872 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Microgaza sp. Dall 1881 top snail | |
Epitonium (Asperiscala) sp. de Boury 1909 wentletrap | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
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Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius, Natica (Natica) sp.
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
? Barleeia sp. Clark 1853 snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Cyclostremiscus (Ponocyclus) sp. Pilsbry 1953 snail | |
Eulimella (Ebalina) sp. Thiele 1929 snail | |
Pseudotorinia sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail | |
Creseis sp. Rang 1828 snail
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Arcopsis sp. Koenen 1885 clam | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
"Pectunculina sp." = Limopsis
"Pectunculina sp." = Limopsis Sassi 1827 clam | |
Kelliella sp. Sars 1865 clam | |
Abra sp. Lamarck 1818 abra | |
Tellidorella sp. Berry 1963 clam | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Nucinella sp. Wood 1850 Nut Clam | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Bathoxiphus sp. Pilsbry 1897 tusk shell | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Cupuladria aff. canariensis, Cupuladria "n. sp. 6", Vibracellina laxibasis, Discoporella "n. sp. 3", Discoporella "n. sp. 6"
Cupuladria "n. sp. 6" Canu and Basler 1919
Discoporella "n. sp. 3" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852 | |
Hippoporidra edax Busk 1859 | |
Nellia tenella Lamarck 1816 | |
Schedocleidochasma "n. sp. 3" Soule et al. 1991 |