Where: Limon, Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Uscari Formation (Limon Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Uscari Formation, which passes abruptly although conformably into the coarser grained strata of the overlying Rio Banano Formation. AGE: Early Miocene in Woodring (1973); Late Miocene in Collins et al. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96507: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.06.2010
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Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium (Fissidentalium) uscarianum" = Fissidentalium uscarianum
"Dentalium (Fissidentalium) uscarianum" = Fissidentalium uscarianum Olsson 1922 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Volvulella (Volvullela) oxytata Bush 1885 snail |