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Taxonomy
Chione costaricensis was named by Olsson (1922). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hill No. 3, Banana River [Rio Banano Fm], which is in a Piacenzian marine siliciclastic in the Rio Banano Formation of Costa Rica.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1922 | Chione costaricensis Olsson p. 245 figs. pl. 32, fig. 4 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Chione costaricensis Olsson 1922
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Piacenzian or 23.04000 to 2.58000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Peru | Chione costaricensis (66177) | |
| Piacenzian | Costa Rica | Chione costaricensis (type locality: 134652) |