Hill No. 2, Banana River [Rio Banano Fm] (Pliocene of Costa Rica)

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

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

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 134677: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and antiquated nomenclature. COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis
"Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis Olsson 1922 ark
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Tellidora) cristata Récluz 1842 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Lamelliconcha musanica Olsson 1922 venus clam
SUBSPECIES: Pitaria hilli musanica
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria macdonaldi Olsson 1922 tulip snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus Guppy 1866 worm shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917 moon snail
Eurytellina angulosa
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"Tellina (Eurytellina) costaricana n. sp." = Eurytellina angulosa costaricana
"Tellina (Eurytellina) costaricana n. sp." = Eurytellina angulosa costaricana Olsson 1922