Boucary Creek: Pliocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella altilira Conrad 1857
recombined as Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira
SUBSPECIES: Turritella altilira costaricensis
Turritella gatunensis Conrad 1857
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra berlinerae Maury 1917
recombined as Strioterebrum berlinerae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitaria boucaryensis n. sp. Olsson 1922
recombined as Lamelliconcha boucaryensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra (Mactrella) exoleta (Garay 1837)
recombined as Mactrellona exoleta
Mactra (Mactrella) alata (Spengler 1802)
recombined as Mactrellona alata
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.9° North, 82.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown. AGE: Pliocene, on the basis of faunal correlations. 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:134665
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-12 06:27:02 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-12 06:27:02
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]