PPP# 715 - Pueblo Nuevo [Moin Fm]: Late/Upper Pliocene, Costa Rica
collected by Jung & Panchaud 1989
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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? Macrocypraea sp.
Woodring 1957
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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19 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Turridae indet.
Swainson 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Cancellaria sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva (Oliva) sp.
Bruguière 1789
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Prunum sp.
Swainson 1840
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Voluta sp.
Linnaeaus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices sp.
Monfort 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Natica (Naticarius) sp.
(Dumeril 1806)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Naticarius | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica sp.
Röding 1798
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Bullidae
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Bulla sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Cunearca) sp.
(Dall 1898)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Barbatia (Barbatia) sp.
Gray 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Axinactis (Glycymerella) sp.
(Woodring 1925)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Tucetona sp.
Iredale 1939
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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? Ostreola sp.
Monterosato 1884
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Argopecten sp.
Monterosato 1889
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caryocorbula sp.
(Gardner 1926)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Solecurtidae
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Tagelus (Mesopleura) sp.
()
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Solecurtus sp.
Blainville 1824
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Dosinia sp.
Scopoli 1777
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Lirophora sp.
Conrad 1863
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13 specimens | |||||||||
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Chione sp.
von Mühlfield 1811
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Cyclinella sp.
Dall 1902
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Pitar sp.
Römer 1857
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp.
(Grant and Gale 1931)
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13 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Cuspidariidae
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Cardiomya sp.
Adams 1864
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Costa Rica | State/province: | Limon |
| Coordinates: | 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.9° North, 83.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,blue silty claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | volcaniclastic,shelly/skeletal sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Blue-gray silty claystone and blocky, muddy, shelly volcaniclastic sandstone with common basalt granules. The lower part of the section contains laminated pyritic, organic-rich claystone and erect branching broyzoans. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Contains reef units in some parts of section. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMB | ||
| Collectors: | Jung & Panchaud | Collection dates: | 1989 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud, et al., 8.4.1989. REPOSITORIES: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB), | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: modern nomenclature, though only identified to subgenus resolution. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMB Loc. 18108 | ||
| Database number: | 79992 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | K. Bulinski |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-31 19:28:58 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-03-31 19:28:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17667. | 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] |