Estrella River: Pliocene, Costa Rica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Litiopidae
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Alaba turrita
Guppy 1896
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Phos estrellensis
Olsson 1922
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recombined as Antillophos estrellensis | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Alectrion ranuncula
Olsson 1922
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Alectrion losquemadica
Maury 1917
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Strombina matima
Olsson 1922
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Drillia estrellana n. sp.
Olsson 1922
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recombined as Agladrillia (Agladrillia) estrellana | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra estrellana
Olsson 1922
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Terebra costaricensis
Olsson 1922
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Voluta alfaroi
Dall 1912
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Gastropoda
- Tonnidae
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Dolium (Malea) elliptica
Pilsbry and Johnston 1917
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= Malea ringens
Swainson 1822
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Beu 2010 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ringiculidae
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Ringicula dominicana
Maury 1917
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Acteocina recta
(d'Orbigny 1845)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Gafrarium altum
(Dall 1903)
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recombined as Gouldia alta | ||||||||||
SUBSPECIES: Gafrarium altum costaricensis | ||||||||||
Dosinia acetabulum
(Conrad 1832)
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Chione rowleei
Olsson 1922
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mactra estrellana
Olsson 1922
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synonym of Harvella elegans | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Anatinellidae
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Labiosa lineata
(Say 1822)
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synonym of Anatina anatina | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium heredium
Olsson 1922
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recombined as Trigoniocardia heredia | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina (Scissula) cercadica
Maury 1917
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recombined as Temnoconcha cercadica | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Costa Rica |
Coordinates: | 9.8° North, 82.9° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 9.7° North, 82.3° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | local area |
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: | 134656 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2012-10-12 05:51:11 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-10-12 05:51:11 |
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:
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] |