Also known as NMB Loc. 17780
Where: Limon, Costa Rica (9.9° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 83.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Banano Formation (Limon Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• The Rio Banano Formation sits diachronously with abrupt lithological transition on the Uscari Formation, mostly conformably and sometimes disconformably. The Rio Banano Formation passes conformably into the Quebrada Chocolate Formation in the area immediately west of Limon but throughout most of the southern Limon Basin it is unconformably overlain by the breccia and coarse grained volcaniclastics of the Suretka Formation. AGE: direct date extrapolated from Bybell (1999) and Collins et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; bioturbated, coarse-grained, concretionary, tuffaceous sandstone and burrowed, tuffaceous, silty siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung et al. in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud & Claudia Mora, 29.3.1988. REPOSITORIES: 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 79991: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 31.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail
Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) sp. Woodring 1928 cerith snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Caecidae indet. Gray 1850 snail | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Nannodiella sp. Dall 1919 snail | |
Olivella (Olivella) sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
Simnia sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Creseis sp. Rang 1828 snail | |
Limacina sp. Bosc 1817 snail | |
Pyramidellidae indet. Gray 1840 snail
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897 mud scallop | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Cardiomya sp. Adams 1864 clam | |
Arcinella sp. Schumacher 1817 jewel box | |
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Tubothalamea | |
Crassispira (Crassispirella) sp. Gaillot and Vachard 2007 |