Also known as NMB Loc. 17822
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.2° N, 82.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 9.5° N, 81.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-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); direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91901: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.10.2009, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Gymnolaemata | |
Discoporella "n. sp. 5", Discoporella "n. sp. 6", Discoporella "n. sp. 7", Cupuladria aff. canariensis, Cupuladria biporosa, Cupuladria aff. biporosa
Discoporella "n. sp. 5" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852
Discoporella "n. sp. 7" d'Orbigny 1852
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923 | |
Biflustra savartii Audouin 1826 | |
Nellia tenella Lamarck 1816 | |
Hippoporella gorgonensis Hastings 1930
Schedocleidochasma "n. sp. 3" Soule et al. 1991 | |
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea altispina n. sp.2
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