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Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and Adjoining ... - USGS

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Abstract.._________________________________________<br />

Introduction-______________________________________<br />

Fieldwork <strong>and</strong> acknowledgments._____________________<br />

Changes in formation <strong>and</strong> age assignments.____________<br />

Additions to annotated bibliography,_________________<br />

Additions to localities at which fossils were collected_____<br />

New generic <strong>and</strong> subgeneric names.___________________<br />

Gastropod faunal summaries <strong>and</strong> age <strong>of</strong> formations. ____<br />

Eocene series.._________________________________<br />

Gatuncillo formation._______________________<br />

Eocene or Oligocene series.______________________<br />

Marine member <strong>of</strong> Bohio(?) formation .-_____<br />

Oligocene series__----_-_______________-____-____<br />

Bohio formation.___________________________<br />

Caimito formation._________________________<br />

Caraba formation.__________________________<br />

Panama formation-____-___-________-_-----_<br />

Miocene series________________________________<br />

Culebra formation._________________________<br />

Cucaracha formation..______________________<br />

La Boca formation, including Emperador lime­<br />

stone member.___________________________<br />

Alhajuela formation.._______________________<br />

Gatun formation._____________-_______----_<br />

Chagres s<strong>and</strong>stone, including Toro limestone<br />

member_ ________________________________<br />

Holocene series.___________________-____-------_<br />

Informally designated Atlantic <strong>and</strong> Pacific muck_<br />

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ILLUSTRATIONS<br />

[Plates follow index]<br />

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Description <strong>of</strong> Tertiary mollusks continued from chapter<br />

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Gastropods continued from chapter C__________ 326<br />

Family Eulimidae___________________________ 326<br />

Family Marginellidae___-_________-__-_-____ 330<br />

Family Cancellariidae.._____________________ 334<br />

Family Conidae____________________________ 345<br />

Family Turridae___--___-___________________ 360<br />

Family Terebridae__________________________ 403<br />

Family Pyramidellidae____--_-__-____--_____ 414<br />

Family Acteonidae______-__-_-____-_________ 415<br />

Family Ringiculidae________________________ 416<br />

Family Scaph<strong>and</strong>ridae______-____---_______ 417<br />

Family Philinidae_________________________ 420<br />

Family Bullidae---____-_--__---_---_-______ 421<br />

Family Atyidae___________________________ 422<br />

Family Retusidae___---__--------_------___- 423<br />

Family Spiratellidae___-__-__-__-___________- 426<br />

Family Cavolinidae_________________________ 427<br />

Family Ellobiidae_________________________ 429<br />

Family Helminthoglyptidae._________________<br />

Additions <strong>and</strong> corrections to families covered in<br />

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preceding chapters._______________________ 430<br />

References cited____________________________________ 435<br />

Index _________--__-_-_-------__------___------__-- 441<br />

PLATE 48. Middle Eocene mollusk from Gatuncillo formation, late Eocene or early Oligocene mollusks from marine member<br />

<strong>of</strong> Bohio (?) formation, late Oligocene mollusks from Bohio <strong>and</strong> Caimito formations, <strong>and</strong> early Miocene mollusks<br />

from La Boca formation.<br />

49. Late Oligocene mollusks from Caimito formation, early Miocene mollusk from La Boca formation, <strong>and</strong> middle<br />

Miocene mollusks from Gatun formation.<br />

50. Early Miocene mollusks from La Boca formation <strong>and</strong> Chipola formation <strong>of</strong> Florida.<br />

51. Early Miocene mollusk from Emperador limestone member <strong>of</strong> La Boca formation <strong>and</strong> middle Miocene mollusks<br />

from Gatun formation.<br />

52-61. Middle Miocene mollusks from Gatun formation.<br />

62, 63. Middle Miocene mollusks from Gatun formation <strong>and</strong> late Miocene mollusks from Chagres s<strong>and</strong>stone.<br />

64, 65. Protoconchs <strong>of</strong> middle Miocene turrids from Gatun formation.<br />

66. Protoconchs <strong>of</strong> middle Miocene turrids <strong>and</strong> terebrids, <strong>and</strong> pteropod from Gatun formation.<br />

in

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