Old Harbor [Uscari Fm]: Late/Upper Miocene, Costa Rica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fasciolaria tulipa
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Sconsia cocleana
Olsson 1922
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Echinochama yaquensis
(Maury 1917)
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| recombined as Arcinella yaquensis | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pteriidae
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Pteria inornata
(Gabb 1873)
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium uscarianum
Olsson 1922
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| recombined as Fissidentalium uscarianum | |||||||
| 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: | 11.63000 - 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: | 134679 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-10-12 07:40:04 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-10-12 07:40:04 |
| 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] |