Also known as NMB Loc. 17779
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: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 79990: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 31.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Tesseracme sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
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Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863 venus clam | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam
Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp. Woodring 1925 clam | |
Anadara (Cunearca) sp. Dall 1898 ark | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Botula sp. Mörch 1853 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Solariella sp. Wood 1842 snail | |
Creseis sp. Rang 1828 snail
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791 snail | |
Limacina sp. Bosc 1817 snail | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Pyramidellidae indet. Gray 1840 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
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Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Clathrodrillia sp. Dall 1918 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
Typhis sp. Montfort 1810 murex snail | |
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell | |
"Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis
"Phalium (Tylocassis) sp." = Semicassis Mörch 1852 snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail |