USGS 4269, Port Limon: Piacenzian - Gelasian, Costa Rica
collected by L.A. Wailes

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Porcellanidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae
Heteractaea lunata (Milne Edwards and Lucas 1843)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Gecarcinidae
Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille 1828
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° North, 82.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene - Quaternary Epoch: Pliocene - Pleistocene
Stage: Piacenzian - Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Piacenzian - Gelasian
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 1.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moin
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Port Limon Formation, Pliocene Series" (now known as the Moin Formation of Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene age, according to Todd & Collins, 2005)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:L.A. Wailes
Metadata
Database number:135452
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:S. Yost
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2012-10-26 06:46:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-26 06:46:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
43320.decapod M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]