Also known as NMB Loc. 17773
Where: Limon, Costa Rica (9.9° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 83.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Banano Formation (Limon Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• 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).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; bioturbated, coarse-grained, concretionary, tuffaceous sandstone and burrowed, tuffaceous, silty siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Panchaud in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung & R. Panchaud, 27.3.1988. REPOSITORIES: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB).
Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79798: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 24.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) sp. Sacco 1892 snail | |
Volvulella (Volvulella) sp. Newton 1891 snail
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945 snail | |
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873 snail
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852 moon snail
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Cyclostremiscus (Ponocyclus) sp. Pilsbry 1953 snail | |
Strombina (Lirastrombina) sp. Jung 1989 snail
Sincola (Sinaxila) sp. Jung 1989 snail
Sincola (Sincola) sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953 snail | |
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Clathrodrillia sp. Dall 1918 snail
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Kurtziella (Kurtziella) sp. Dall 1918 snail | |
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) sp. Gabb 1872 snail | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid
Lepicythara sp. Olsson 1964 turrid | |
Olivella (Olivella) sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail
Olivella (Dactylidella) sp. Woodring 1928 olive snail | |
? Fusiturricula sp. Woodring 1928 ribbed mitre | |
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell
Dentimargo sp. Cossmann 1899 margin shell | |
Persicula sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Niso sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula (Lamellinucula) sp. Schenck 1944 nut clam | |
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam | |
Noetia sp. Gray 1857 clam | |
Anadara (Potiarca) sp. Iredale 1939 ark | |
Chionopsis sp. Olsson 1932 venus clam
Lamelliconcha sp. Dall 1902 venus clam
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam | |
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Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam |