PPP# 631 - Pueblo Nuevo [Moin Fm]: Calabrian, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
3 specimens
2 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
5 specimens
2 specimens
3 specimens
2 specimens
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Steginoporellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Candidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
100 specimens
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Exechonellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
400 specimens
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
100 specimens
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
100 specimens
10 specimens
100 specimens
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
10 specimens
10 specimens
1 specimen
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cheiloporinidae
1 specimen
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Gigantoporidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Margarettidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Turbicellepora sp. Ryland 1963
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
10 specimens
1 specimen
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Sertellidae
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Petraliidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Tetraplariidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Stomachetosellidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
10 specimens
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Escharinidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Biflustra savartii (Audouin 1826)
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
100 specimens
100 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella (Lamarck 1816)
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
51 specimens
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis sp. Sassi 1827
17 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Arcopsis sp. Koenen 1885
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
29 specimens
Acar sp. Gray 1857
6 specimens
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinisca sp. Dall 1901
1 specimen
Parvilucina sp. (Dall 1901)
3 specimens
sensu lato
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cardiomya sp. Adams 1864
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
125 specimens
Juliacorbula sp. Olsson 1953
1 specimen
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
11 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
2 specimens
Anomalocardia sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847
45 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Pseudochama sp. Odhner 1917
1 specimen
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
13 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925
4 specimens
Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
5 specimens
Leionucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
3 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
1 specimen
sensu lato
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Triviidae
Erato sp. Risso 1826
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
6 specimens
sensu lato
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
? Murex sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Volvarina sp. (Hinds 1844)
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Nannodiella sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
Daphnella sp. Hinds 1844
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sp. (Lea 1843)
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica (Naticarius) sp. (Dumeril 1806)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Episcynia sp. Morch 1875
1 specimen
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Niso sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Arene sp. Adams and Adams 1854
6 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora sp. Gray 1821
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Retusidae
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
4 specimens
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Heliacus sp. d'Orbigny 1842
4 specimens
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Geography
Country:Costa Rica State/province:Limon
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.2° North, 82.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Calabrian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Calabrian
Age range of interval: 1.8 - 0.774 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 1.6 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Limon Formation:Moin Member:Middle
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: The Moin Formation sits conformably on the Quebrada Chocolate Fomation and has no upper contact. AGE: direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
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
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff) collected on 4/3/89. 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. 18080
Database number:79835
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-25 11:49:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-25 11:49:55
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]

Secondary references:

43588 A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]