TU 953 - Pueblo Nuevo [Moin Fm]: Late/Upper Pliocene, Costa Rica
collected by Vokes & Vokes

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Dermomurex (Trialatella) antecessor Vokes 1975
Vokes 1975
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) prolixus Vokes 1974
Vokes 1974
Siphonochelus (Pilsbrytyphis) gabbi (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Gertman 1969
Typhis (Talityphis) expansus (Sowerby 1874)
Gertman 1969
recombined as Typhina expansa
Pygmaepterys germainae Vokes and D'Attilio 1980
Vokes and D'Attilio 1980
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis altispira Beu 2010
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Charonia variegata (Lamarck 1816)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Monoplex krebsii (Mörch 1877)
Beu 2010 2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.0° 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
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Moin Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Pliocene; following Collins and Coates (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:Vokes & Vokes
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History; USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:92697
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-24 18:00:37 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-11-24 18:00:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31182. E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]

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]
31231 R. L. Gertman. 1969. Cenozoic Typhinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Western Atlantic region. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 7(4):143-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31296 E. H. Vokes. 1974. Notes on Chicoreus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Cenozoic of the Western Atlantic region with the description on new species. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 11(2):81-95 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31301 E. H. Vokes. 1975. Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part VI - Aspella and Dermomurex. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 11(3):121-162 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31320 E. H. Vokes and A. D'Attilio. 1980. Pygmaepterys, a newly described taxon of Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with the description of three new species from the Cenozoic of the Western Atlantic. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 16(2):45-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]