Hill No. 1, Banana River [Rio Banano Fm]: Piacenzian, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis papulosa (Guppy 1866)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra spirifera (Dall 1895)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olsson 1956
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Dolium (Malea) elliptica Pilsbry and Johnston 1917
    = Malea ringens Swainson 1822
Beu 2010
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca pittieri (Dall 1912)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea megodon Hanley 1846
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula vieta Guppy 1866
Corbula oropendula Olsson 1922
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
    = Arcinella arcinella Linnaeus 1767
Perrilliat and Flores-Guerrero 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 9.6° North, 82.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.1° North, 82.2° West (Wright 2013)
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: 3.6 - 2.58 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: direct date extrapolated from Bybell (1999) and Collins et al. (1999). 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 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:134664
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-12 06:25:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-12 06:25:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43299 A. A. Olsson. 1956. Studies on the Genus Olivella. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 108:155-225 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43283 M. C. Perrilliat and P. Flores-Guerrero. 2011. Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 28(3):379-397 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]