Also known as NMB Loc. 17773
Where: Limon, Costa Rica (9.9° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 83.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Banano Formation (Limon Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• The Rio Banano Formation sits diachronously with abrupt lithological transition on the Uscari Formation, mostly conformably and sometimes disconformably. The Rio Banano Formation passes conformably into the Quebrada Chocolate Formation in the area immediately west of Limon but throughout most of the southern Limon Basin it is unconformably overlain by the breccia and coarse grained volcaniclastics of the Suretka Formation. AGE: direct date extrapolated from Bybell (1999) and Collins et al. (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; bioturbated, coarse-grained, concretionary, tuffaceous sandstone and burrowed, tuffaceous, silty siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Panchaud in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung & R. Panchaud, 27.3.1988. REPOSITORIES: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB).
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79798: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 24.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
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Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam
Lamelliconcha sp. Dall 1902 venus clam
Chionopsis sp. Olsson 1932 venus clam | |
Anadara (Potiarca) sp. Iredale 1939 ark | |
Noetia sp. Gray 1857 clam | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula (Lamellinucula) sp. Schenck 1944 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891 snail | |
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873 snail
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Niso sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
? Fusiturricula sp. Woodring 1928 ribbed mitre | |
Strombina (Lirastrombina) sp. Jung 1989 snail
Sincola (Sincola) sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953 snail
Sincola (Sinaxila) sp. Jung 1989 snail | |
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Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Kurtziella (Kurtziella) sp. Dall 1918 snail | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid
Lepicythara sp. Olsson 1964 turrid | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Clathrodrillia sp. Dall 1918 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) sp. Gabb 1872 snail | |
Olivella (Dactylidella) sp. Woodring 1928 olive snail
Olivella (Olivella) sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
Persicula sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Cyclostremiscus (Ponocyclus) sp. Pilsbry 1953 snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail |