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
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
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
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Gastropoda | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Sinum sp. Röding 1798 moon snail
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus Lea 1843 worm shell | |
Sconsia sp., "Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847 snail
"Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis Mörch 1852 snail | |
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799 olive snail | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail
Terebra (Oreoterebra) sp. Olsson 1967 auger snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955 snail | |
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945 snail
? Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945 snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Leionucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam | |
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula), Caryocorbula sp.
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina)
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam | |
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840 cockle | |
? Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897 scallop | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp. Woodring 1925 clam
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia pittieri Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Paracyathus adetos Cairns 1995 stony coral
Antillocyathus gracilis Cairns 1995 stony coral | |
Guynia annulata Duncan 1872 stony coral |