Where: Costa Rica (9.7° N, 82.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 82.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown. AGE: Pliocene, on the basis of faunal correlations. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Olsson, A. REPOSITORY: PRI.
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1922. The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(39):1-309 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134660: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Bursa crassa" = Marsupina bufo
"Bursa crassa" = Marsupina bufo BruguiƩre 1792 frog shell | |
"Strombus pugiloides" = Strombus proximus
"Strombus pugiloides" = Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850 conch | |
"Phos subsemicostatus" = Cymatophos subsemicostatus
"Phos subsemicostatus" = Cymatophos subsemicostatus Brown and Pilsbry 1911 true whelk | |
Terebra bipartita Sowerby 1849 auger snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Leda (Adrana) quitanensis" = Adrana quitanensis, "Leda balboae" = Saccella balboae
"Leda (Adrana) quitanensis" = Adrana quitanensis Olsson 1922 pointed nut clam
"Leda balboae" = Saccella balboae Brown and Pilsbry 1911 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula cahuitensis n. sp." = Nucula (Nucula) cahuitensis
"Nucula cahuitensis n. sp." = Nucula (Nucula) cahuitensis Olsson 1922 nut clam | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi
"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi Dall 1912 clam | |
"Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri, "Arca hindsi" = Anadara (Cunearca) hindsi
"Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri Dall 1912 ark
"Arca hindsi" = Anadara (Cunearca) hindsi Olsson 1922 ark | |
"Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula
"Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula Olsson 1922 clam | |
"Labiosa lineata" = Anatina anatina
"Labiosa lineata" = Anatina anatina Spengler 1802 clam | |
Mulinia lateralis, "Mactra sincola n. sp." = Harvella sincola
"Mactra sincola n. sp." = Harvella sincola Olsson 1922 clam | |
"Antigona tarquina" = Periglypta tarquinia, "Pitaria circinata" = Lamelliconcha circinata
"Antigona tarquina" = Periglypta tarquinia Dall 1900 venus clam
"Pitaria circinata" = Lamelliconcha circinata Born 1778 venus clam | |
"Tellina (Scissula) cercadica" = Temnoconcha cercadica
"Tellina (Scissula) cercadica" = Temnoconcha cercadica Maury 1917 tellin clam | |
"Venericardia scabricostata" = Cardita (Glans) scabricostata
"Venericardia scabricostata" = Cardita (Glans) scabricostata Guppy 1866 clam |