Also known as NMB Loc. 17778
Where: Limon, Costa Rica (9.9° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 83.2° 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 et al. in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud & Claudia Mora, 29.3.1988. 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 79803: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 24.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
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Bivalvia | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
"Lucinisca sp." = Lucina (Lucinisca), Parvilucina sp.
"Lucinisca sp." = Lucina (Lucinisca) Dall 1901 clam | |
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam
Chionopsis sp. Olsson 1932 venus clam | |
Arcinella sp. Schumacher 1817 jewel box | |
Anadara (Cunearca) sp. Dall 1898 ark | |
Noetia sp. Gray 1857 clam | |
? Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873 snail
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Strombina (Lirastrombina) sp. Jung 1989 snail | |
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Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk | |
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Terebra (Oreoterebra) sp. Olsson 1967 auger snail | |
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch |