Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cayo Agua Formation, which 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. AGE: Early Pliocene (Zanclean) in text; Nannoplankton zone NN16; also contains the planktonic foraminifers Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 47.875 m in section 19 of Coates & Collins (1999).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, silty sandstone
•LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text, but known to be poorly lithified by enterer; figured specimens appear to have been cleaned of sediment.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. Schwarzhans and O. Aguilera. 2013. Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America. Paleo Ichthyologica 13:83-150 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 219205: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.03.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Actinopteri | |
Lobianchia johnfitchi, Myctophum jacksoni, Diaphus depressifrons, ? Diaphus hataii, Diaphus apalus, Diaphus aequalis
Lobianchia johnfitchi Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish
Myctophum jacksoni Aguilera and de Aguilera 2001 lanternfish
Diaphus depressifrons Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish
? Diaphus hataii Ohe and Araki 1973 lanternfish
Diaphus apalus Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish
Diaphus aequalis Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish | |