Rio Banano Formation: Piacenzian, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina (Lirastrombina) musanica (Olsson 1922)
Jung 1989
Strombina (Lirastrombina) costaricensis (Olsson 1922)
Jung 1989
Sincola (Sinaxila) lloydsmithi
Jung 1989
Sincola (Sinaxila) matima
Jung 1989
Sincola (Sincola) sincola (Olsson 1922)
Jung 1989
Sincola (Sincola) crassilabrum (Guppy 1874)
Jung 1989
Mitrella limonensis (Gabb 1881)
Jung 1989
Costoanachis exilis (Gabb 1873)
Jung 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Thais rustica (Lamarck 1822)
recombined as Stramonita rustica
Murex (Haustellum) messorius (Sowerby 1841)
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria anomoia (Woodring 1970)
Landau et al. 2012
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Bothrocorbula) vimnea
Anderson 1996
original and current combination Bothrocorbula
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 9.6° North, 82.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.5° North, 82.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Age estimate:2.9 Ma (other)3.6 to 2.2 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rio Banano
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: 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: Early Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is representative of formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data provided.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: Multiple repositories.
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Metadata
Database number:131919
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-08-02 05:44:37 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-08-02 05:44:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18707. E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

24475 L. C. Anderson. 1996. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 16. The Family Corbulidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):5-34 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26828 P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43491 B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]