Locality data for collections included in the Panama Paleontology Project molluscan distribution database for 2001

Sample information is stored in collections2001.csv. This is a table with fields seperated by commas, and includes seven columns:

1. PPP Number - The Panama Paleontology Project locality number for each sample.
2. Start and End
- The lower and upper limit of ages assigned to each sample in millions of years before present.
3. Basin - The depositional basin from which each collection was obtained.
4. Locality - a general locality name for each sample, more detailed locality information is available from the Panama Paleontology Project.
5. Faunule - each collection was assigned to a faunule for more general analyses, these are modified after the faunules of Jackson et al. (1999).
6. Depth - The approximate paleodepth assigned to each collection, Depth_1 = 0-50 m, Depth_2 = 51-100 m, and Depth_3 > 100 m. For more details see Johnson et al (submitted).

This project has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the US National Science Foundation.

References

1. Jackson, J. B. C. and K. G. Johnson. 2000. Life in the past few million years. Pp. 221-235 in Erwin, D. H. and S. L. Wing (eds.), Deep Time: Paleobiology's Perspective. Paleobiology Supplement to volume 26(4).
2. Jackson, J. B. C., J. A. Todd, H. Fortunato, and P. Jung. 1999. Diversity and assemblages of Neogene Caribbean Mollusca of lower Central America. Pp. 193-230 in L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates, eds. A paleobiotic survey of the Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357.
3. Johnson, K. G., J. B. C. Jackson, J. A. Todd, H. Fortunato, and A. Heitz. submitted. Neogene Molluscan diversity was stable for ten million years in the Southwest Caribbean despite major environmental change. Submitted to Paleobiology, July 2001
4. Todd, J. A., J. B. C. Jackson, K. G. Johnson, H. M. Fortunato, A. Heitz, M. Alvarez, and P. Jung. 2001. The ecology of extinction: molluscan feeding and faunal turnover in the Caribbean Neogene. submitted to Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B., July 2001.