NMB Loc. 18281 - Buenos Aires [Moin Fm] (Pleistocene of Costa Rica)

Also known as PPP# 1083; 92-00-04

Where: Limon, Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 83.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moin Formation (Limon Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 1/10/92. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and 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 79848: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 25.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. IDENTIFIER: presumably identified by J. Jackson, J. Todd, H. Fortunato, and P. Jung.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam