PPP# 651 - Limón [Moin Fm]: Late Pliocene, Costa Rica
collected by Jung & Panchaud 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
3 specimens
34 specimens
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
37 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
? Yoldiella sp. Verrill and Bush 1897
1 specimen
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
10 specimens
sensu lato
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
44 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
8 specimens
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Costoanachis sp. Sacco 1890
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Horaiclavidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Alvania sp. Risso 1826
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Episcynia sp. Morch 1875
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Solariellidae
Solariella sp. Wood 1842
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Bullidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Heliacus sp. d'Orbigny 1842
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica State/province:Limon
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° North, 82.5° West (Wright 2013)
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 Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Limon Formation:Moin Member:Middle
Local section:Lomas del Mar Local bed:Western Reef Flank Sequence
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The Moin Formation sits conformably on the Quebrada Chocolate Fomation and has no upper contact.
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:reef, buildup or bioherm
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., 4.4.1989 REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and 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. 18087
Database number:79843
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-25 12:09:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-25 12:09:07
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]