Sousci Creek: Piacenzian, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra cf. haitensis Dall 1895
recombined as Terebra (Oreoterebra) haitensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex (Phyllonotus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta alfaroi Dall 1912
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris jamaicensis Dall 1898
recombined as Glycymeris (Glycymeris) jamaicensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Callocardia gatunensis (Dall 1903)
recombined as Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis
Clementia dariena (Conrad 1855)
recombined as Clementia (Clementia) dariena
Chione mactropsis (Conrad 1855)
recombined as Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele sayi Toula 1909
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 9.7° North, 82.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.6° North, 82.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:Banano
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown. AGE: Pliocene, on the basis of faunal correlations; direct date extrapolated from Bybell (1999) and Collins et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.
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 methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Olsson, A. REPOSITORY: PRI.
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and antiquated nomenclature. COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs.
Metadata
Database number:134659
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-12 06:01:28 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-12 06:01:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43229. A. A. Olsson. 1922. The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(39):1-309 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]