Where: Costa Rica (9.6° N, 82.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.3° N, 82.0° W (Wright 2013)
• 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 134670: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial | |
"Strombina lessepsiana" = Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana
"Strombina lessepsiana" = Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana Brown and Pilsbry 1911 snail | |
Melongena consors Sowerby 1850 snail | |
"Phos mexicanus" = Antillophos (Antillophos) mexicanus
"Phos mexicanus" = Antillophos (Antillophos) mexicanus Bose 1906 true whelk | |
"Cancellaria dariena" = Bivetiella dariena
"Cancellaria dariena" = Bivetiella dariena Toula 1908 snail | |
Drillia papaya n. sp.
Drillia papaya n. sp. Olsson 1922 snail | |
Natica youngi cocleana Olsson 1922 moon snail |