PPP# 757 - Lomas del Mar [Moin Fm]: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Costa Rica
collected by Jung & Panchaud 1989
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Asterosmilia exarata
Duncan 1867
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Collins and Coates 1999 | ||||||
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Asterosmilia profunda
(Duncan 1864)
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Collins and Coates 1999 | ||||||
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Asterosmilia irregularis
Cairns 1995
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Balanophyllia pittieri
Vaughan 1919
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Collins and Coates 1999 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Personidae
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Distorsio mcgintyi
Emerson and Puffer 1953
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Beu 2010 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Sconsia grayi
Adams 1855
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Beu 2010 | 7 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Monoplex krebsii
(Mörch 1877)
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Beu 2010 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Charonia variegata
(Lamarck 1816)
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Beu 2010 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Coordinates: | 10.0° North, 83.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.9° North, 82.7° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 1.8 Ma (other)1.9 to 1.7 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Limon | Formation: | Moin | Member: | Lomas del Mar |
| Local section: | 36 | Local bed: | 32 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 1.7-1.9 Ma | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified claystone |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: depth 40-73 m | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMB | ||
| Collectors: | Jung & Panchaud | Collection dates: | 1989 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud, et al., 2.4.1989. REPOSITORY: NMB, Basel, Switzerland | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text. NOMECLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMB Loc. 18079 | ||
| Database number: | 91911 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, A. Hendy | Enterer: | U. Merkel, A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-26 02:22:01 | Last modified: | 2012-12-02 10:53:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-10-26 02:22:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30941. | S. D. Cairns. 1995. New records of azooxanthellate stony corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia and Stylasteridae) from the Neogene of Panama and Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3):533-550 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 30037 | A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 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] |