Location 42b, Gatun Lake area (Bohio Formation) - Woodring (1957) (Eocene of Panama)

Also known as field #149b

Where: Panama (9.2° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bohio Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Listed as "3 m higher than previous collection (locality 42)". Marine strata of early Tertiary age in the Gatun Lake area are tentatively designated the marine member of the Bohio Formation. They are thought to represent a marine tongue in the lower part of what is essentially a non-marine formation. The age is disputed. Large foraminifera point to a late Eocene age and are unlikely to reworked, but large foraminifera of Oligocene age were undescribed from the Carribean at the time of writing. Mollusa have regional Eocene affinities, although others have later affinities. The most amrked faunal similariies are with the late Eocene of Columbia and the late Eocene-early Oligocene of Peru. A late Eocene-early Oligocene age was assigned to these collections. A literature search has failed to resolve this age any finer for this "tongue".

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, pebbly, silty, calcareous sandstone

• A marine tongue within a overall non-marine lithostratigraphic unit.
• Listed as "one metre ledge-forming silty medium-grained calcareous sandstone containing small pebbles". Strata consist of dark tuffaceous silty sandstone, containing practically black calcareous concretions, and small-pebble conglomerate. Fossils were found in the calcareous concretions and also in the sandstone. A thickness of 95 feet (29 m) was reported for this section.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Thomson and Woodring (1949). Location now unaccessible (underwater). Material is also held (but not specified for any specific collection) at Stanford University, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Corenell University, PRI, U. Cal. and Cal. Acad. Sci.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42529: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for gastropods. Includes forams (identified by Cole, 1953)
Foraminifera
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 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
"Nummulites striatoreticulatus" = Nummulites, "Operculinoides jacksonensis" = Nummulites, "Operculinoides krugleri" = Nummulites, "Operculinoides trinitatensis" = Nummulites
"Nummulites striatoreticulatus" = Nummulites
"Operculinoides jacksonensis" = Nummulites
"Operculinoides krugleri" = Nummulites
"Operculinoides trinitatensis" = Nummulites