Estrella River: Pliocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Litiopidae
Alaba turrita Guppy 1896
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Phos estrellensis Olsson 1922
recombined as Antillophos estrellensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Alectrion ranuncula Olsson 1922
Alectrion losquemadica Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina matima Olsson 1922
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Drillia estrellana n. sp. Olsson 1922
recombined as Agladrillia (Agladrillia) estrellana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra estrellana Olsson 1922
Terebra costaricensis Olsson 1922
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta alfaroi Dall 1912
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Dolium (Malea) elliptica Pilsbry and Johnston 1917
    = Malea ringens Swainson 1822
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula dominicana Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina recta (d'Orbigny 1845)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Gafrarium altum (Dall 1903)
recombined as Gouldia alta
SUBSPECIES: Gafrarium altum costaricensis
Dosinia acetabulum (Conrad 1832)
Chione rowleei Olsson 1922
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra estrellana Olsson 1922
synonym of Harvella elegans
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Labiosa lineata (Say 1822)
synonym of Anatina anatina
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium heredium Olsson 1922
recombined as Trigoniocardia heredia
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Scissula) cercadica Maury 1917
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]