Also known as PPP# 274; CJ-88-14-01
Where: Costa Rica (9.4° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 82.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Miocene, according to Beu (2010); justification not provided in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 2 m-thick stratigraphy.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, concretionary sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung et al. in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
• COLLECTOR: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud & Y. Ventocilla, 20/3/1988. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB
Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136254: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Marsupina judensis n. sp.
Marsupina judensis n. sp. Beu 2010 frog shell | |
Distorsio constricta Broderip 1835 snail | |
Semicassis centiquadrata Valenciennes 1832 snail |