Red Cliff Creek [Uscari Fm]: Late/Upper Miocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Chlorostoma (Neomphalius) costaricensis Olsson 1922
Gastropoda - Thaididae
Sistrum nodulosum (Adams 1845)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Aphera) islacolonis Maury 1917
    = Aphera sp. Adams and Adams 1854
Landau et al. 2012
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.8° North, 82.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Uscari
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: The Uscari Formation which sits diachronously with abrupt lithological transition below the Rio Banano Formation, mostly conformably and sometimes disconformably. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is representative of formation.
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:134672
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-12 06:49:43 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-12 06:49:43
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:

43491 B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]