East Grape Point Creek: Early/Lower Pliocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma mancinella Olsson 1922
recombined as Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) mancinella
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella altilira Conrad 1857
recombined as Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira
SUBSPECIES: Turritella altilira chiriquiensis
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus pugiloides Guppy 1866
synonym of Strombus proximus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olivellidae
Oliva mancinella Olsson 1922
recombined as Agaronia testacea mancinella
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella muticoides (Gabb 1873)
recombined as Olivella (Olivella) muticoides
Oliva brevispira Gabb 1873
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus floridanus Gabb 1868
synonym of Conus anabathrum
SUBSPECIES: Conus floridanus costaricensis
Conus burckhardti Bose 1906
Conus imitator Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Drillia carruca n. sp. Olsson 1922
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex (Phyllonotus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria rowelli Dall 1896
    = Cancellaria anomoia Woodring 1970
Landau et al. 2012
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina bullata (Kiener 1834)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca hindsi Olsson 1922
recombined as Anadara (Cunearca) hindsi
Arca umbonata Lamarck 1819
synonym of Lamarcka imbricata
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris jamaicensis Dall 1898
recombined as Glycymeris (Glycymeris) jamaicensis
Glycymeris carbasina Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Glycymeris canalis Brown and Pilsbry 1911
recombined as Tucetona pectinata canalis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Pecten oligolepis (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
recombined as Cyclopecten oligolepis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Chlamys) costaricensis Olsson 1922
synonym of Argopecten uselmae
Amusium luna (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
synonym of Amusium toulae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea megodon Hanley 1846
recombined as Undulostrea megodon
Ostrea costaricensis Olsson 1922
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Trachycardium) costaricanum n. sp. Olsson 1922
recombined as Trachycardium (Mexicardia) dominicanum costaricanum
Cardium (Trachycardium) dominicense Gabb 1873
recombined as Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Angulus) umbra (Dall 1900)
recombined as Angulus umbra
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia scabricostata (Guppy 1866)
recombined as Cardita (Glans) scabricostata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatellites (Crassinella) midiensis Olsson 1922
recombined as Crassinella midiensis
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Leda balboae Brown and Pilsbry 1911
recombined as Saccella balboae
Leda (Adrana) quitanensis Olsson 1922
recombined as Adrana quitanensis
unclassified
Glycymeris lloydsmithi Brown and Pilsbry 1917
recombined as Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi
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
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown. AGE: likely Pliocene, on the basis of faunal correlations; placed in Early Pliocene by enterer on the basis of Cancellaria anomoia. 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:134655
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-12 05:43:21 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-12 05:43:21
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]

Secondary references:

43469 B. D. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):311-339 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]