TU 954 - Pueblo Nuevo [Moin Fm] (Pliocene of Costa Rica)

Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moin Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Moin Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Pliocene; following Collins and Coates (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History; USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92575: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Dermomurex (Trialatella) antecessor n. sp.4 Vokes 1975 murex snail
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) pauperculus4 Adams 1850 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) prolixus n. sp.3 Vokes 1974 murex snail
Pterotyphis (Pterotyphis) pinnatus2 Broderip 1833 murex snail
"Typhis (Talityphis) expansus" = Typhina expansa2 Sowerby 1874 murex snail
Calotrophon ascensus5 Vokes 1976 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio clathrata1 Lamarck 1816 snail
Distorsio mcgintyi1 Emerson and Puffer 1953 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Marsupina bufo1 Bruguiére 1792 frog shell
Bursa scrobilator1 Linnaeus 1758 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Semicassis granulata1 Born 1778 snail
Cassis altispira1 Beu 2010 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Charonia variegata1 Lamarck 1816 triton
Monoplex krebsii1 Mörch 1877 triton shell
Cymatium femorale1 Linnaeus 1758 triton shell