Where: Costa Rica (9.6° N, 82.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 82.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Banano Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: 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). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is representative of formation.
• 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 134664: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Crassatellites (Crassinella) bowdenensis" = Crassinella bowdenensis
"Crassatellites (Crassinella) bowdenensis" = Crassinella bowdenensis Dall 1903 clam SUBSPECIES: Crassatellites (Crassinella) bowdenensis costaricensis
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"Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula, "Corbula vieta" = Varicorbula vieta
"Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula Olsson 1922 clam
"Corbula vieta" = Varicorbula vieta Guppy 1866 clam | |
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"Callocardia gatunensis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis
"Callocardia gatunensis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis Dall 1903 venus clam | |
Tellina (Tellidora) cristata Récluz 1842 tellin clam | |
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"Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum" = Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) stiriatum
"Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum" = Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) stiriatum Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cockle | |
"Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri, "Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis, "Arca (Scapharca) golfoyaquensis" = Anadara (Rasia) golfoyaquensis
"Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri Dall 1912 ark
"Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis Olsson 1922 ark
"Arca (Scapharca) golfoyaquensis" = Anadara (Rasia) golfoyaquensis Maury 1917 ark SUBSPECIES: Arca (Scapharca) golfoyaquensis medioamericana
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"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi
"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi Dall 1912 clam | |
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon Hanley 1846 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Marginella collina n. sp." = Volvarina collina
"Marginella collina n. sp." = Volvarina collina Olsson 1922 margin shell | |
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"Turricula lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis
"Turricula lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis Olsson 1922 ribbed mitre | |
Conus cf. interstinctus Guppy 1866 cone shell | |
"Terebra spirifera" = Strioterebrum spiriferum
"Terebra spirifera" = Strioterebrum spiriferum Dall 1895 auger snail | |
Drillia musacina Olsson 1922 snail | |
"Ancistrosyrinx elegans" = Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) elegans
"Ancistrosyrinx elegans" = Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) elegans Dall 1881 snail | |
"Cythara terminula" = Lepicythara terminula
"Cythara terminula" = Lepicythara terminula Dall 1890 turrid SUBSPECIES: Cythara terminula costaricensis
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"Phos veatchi n. sp." = Cymatophos veatchi, Solenosteira vaughani, Metula cancellata, "Strombina sincola" = Sincola (Sincola) sincola, Strombina matima, Alectrion ranuncula
"Phos veatchi n. sp." = Cymatophos veatchi Olsson 1922 true whelk
Metula cancellata Gabb 1873 true whelk
"Strombina sincola" = Sincola (Sincola) sincola Olsson 1922 true whelk
Strombina matima Olsson 1922 true whelk
Alectrion ranuncula Olsson 1922 true whelk | |
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus Guppy 1866 snail | |
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917 moon snail |