Hone Creek: Piacenzian, 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
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra aff. rudis Gabb 1873
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusus honensis n. sp. Olsson 1922
recombined as Fusinus honensis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Scapharca) actinophora (Dall 1898)
recombined as Anadara (Rasia) actinophora
Arca (Scapharca) honensis n. sp. Olsson 1922
recombined as Anadara (Rasia) honensis
Arca (Scapharca) auriculata (Lamarck 1819)
synonym of Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Chlamys) levicostatus (Toula 1909)
recombined as Argopecten levicostatus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus gumanomocon Brown and Pilsbry 1913
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Clementia dariena (Conrad 1855)
recombined as Clementia (Clementia) dariena
Dosinia acetabulum (Conrad 1832)
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:134676
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-12 07:35:50 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-12 07:35:50
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]