NMB Loc. 18281 - Buenos Aires [Moin Fm]: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Costa Rica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella sp.
Woodring 1925
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6 individuals | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Costa Rica | State/province: | Limon |
| Coordinates: | 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.9° North, 83.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH,NMB,USNM |
| Collection method comments: COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 1/10/92. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB), | |
| Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. IDENTIFIER: presumably identified by J. Jackson, J. Todd, H. Fortunato, and P. Jung. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | PPP# 1083; 92-00-04 | ||
| Database number: | 79848 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Bulinski |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-25 17:14:21 | Last modified: | 2012-11-25 22:19:11 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-03-25 17:14:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17667. | L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |