Also known as NMB Loc. 17861
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 80.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nancy Point Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: the Nancy Point Fm is conformable with the Tobabe Fm below and the Shark Hole Point Fm above. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), an age range of 8.2-5.6 Ma, Late Miocene, though PPP dataset indicates an age of 6.5-5.6 Ma. Local Section name, Valiente.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, carbonaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung et al. in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, D. Geary & L. Anderson, 7.6.1988. 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 79795: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 24.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Antillophos (Rhipophos) sp. Woodring 1964 true whelk | |
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell | |
Uromitra sp. Bellardi 1887 ribbed mitre | |
Compsodrillia sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Fissidentalium sp. Fischer 1885 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark |