Also known as NMB Loc. 18087
Where: Limon, Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 83.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Moin Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• The Moin Formation sits conformably on the Quebrada Chocolate Fomation and has no upper contact.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; gray, blue, silty claystone and volcaniclastic, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Panchaud in 1989; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud, et al., 4.4.1989 REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and 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 79843: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 25.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Solariella sp. Wood 1842 snail | |
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Episcynia sp. Morch 1875 snail | |
Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890 moon snail | |
Alvania sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Olivella (Minioliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis)
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis) Sacco 1890 snail | |
Glyphoturris sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Thelecythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) sp. Gabb 1872 snail | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Heliacus sp. d'Orbigny 1842 snail | |
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
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Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam | |
Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875 pointed nut clam | |
? Yoldiella sp. Verrill and Bush 1897 clam |