Also known as NMB Loc. 18108
Where: Limon, Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 83.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Moin Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• The Moin Formation sits conformably on the Quebrada Chocolate Fromation and has no upper contact.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue, silty claystone and volcaniclastic, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Panchaud in 1989; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud, et al., 8.4.1989. 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 79992: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 31.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840 margin shell | |
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758 volute | |
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? Macrocypraea sp. Woodring 1957 cowry | |
Polinices sp., "Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) sp. Gray 1842 clam
Anadara (Cunearca) sp. Dall 1898 ark | |
Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp. Woodring 1925 clam
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam | |
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889 calico scallop | |
? Ostreola sp. Monterosato 1884 oyster | |
Cardiomya sp. Adams 1864 clam | |
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
Cyclinella sp. Dall 1902 venus clam
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 venus clam
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863 venus clam
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam | |
Solecurtus sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam |