PPP# 653 - Limón [Moin Fm]: Calabrian, Costa Rica
collected by Jung & Panchaud 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
1 specimen
1 specimen
5 specimens
5 specimens
6 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Steginoporellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Candidae
1 specimen
? Scrupocellaria sp. van Beneden 1845
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Micropora coriacea (Johnston 1847)
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
1 specimen
Celleporaria sp. Lamouroux 1821
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
11 specimens
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cheiloporinidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Gigantoporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Sertellidae
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Hippoporinidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Smittoidea pacifica Soule and Soule 1973
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
10 specimens
10 specimens
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella (Lamarck 1816)
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Metrarabdotosidae
1 specimen
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Gemelliporellidae
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
2 specimens
[entered as Ostreid indet.]
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
Dimya sp. Rouault 1850
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
1 specimen
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten sp. Verrill 1897
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis sp. Sassi 1827
21 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
1 specimen
Acar sp. Gray 1857
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinisca sp. Dall 1901
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Trigonulina sp. d'Orbigny 1946
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Transennella sp. (Dall 1884)
1 specimen
6 specimens
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
17 specimens
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta sp. Bronn 1831
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925
6 specimens
? Adrana sp. Adams and Adams 1858
2 specimens
Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875
7 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
32 specimens
sensu lato
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Eratoidae
Erato (Hespererato) sp. (Schilder 1932)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
15 specimens
17 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Anachis sp. Adams and Adams 1853
11 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
35 specimens
sensu lato
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
1 specimen
? Neosconsia sp. Olsson 1964
1 specimen
Strombinophos sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
6 specimens
Scobinella sp. Conrad 1848
1 specimen
1 specimen
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
5 specimens
3 specimens
Nannodiella sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
1 specimen
Gymnobela sp. Verrill 1884
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Bellaspira sp. Conrad 1868
1 specimen
12 specimens
26 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
Daphnella sp. Hinds 1844
3 specimens
Pleurotomella sp. Verrill 1872
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Cerodrillia sp. Bartsch and Rehder 1939
1 specimen
Hindsiclava sp. Hertlein and Strong 1955
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
? Sigatica sp. (Meyer and Aldrich 1886)
1 specimen
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
7 specimens
Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890
1 specimen
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Alvania sp. Risso 1826
17 specimens
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Cyclostremiscus sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
? Stilifer sp. Broderip 1832
1 specimen
Niso sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
1 specimen
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
2 specimens
Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
11 specimens
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella sp. Bruguière 1789
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Retusidae
Sulcoretusa sp. Burch 1945
2 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Bullidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Styliola sp. Gray 1850
7 specimens
Diacria sp. Gray 1847
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Acteon sp. Montfort 1810
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Eulimastoma sp. Bartsch 1916
1 specimen
Triptychus sp. Mörch 1875
3 specimens
? Ondina sp. de Folin 1870
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica State/province:Limon
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.2° North, 82.9° 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
Local section:Lomas del Mar Local bed:Western Reef Flank Sequence
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Moin Formation, which 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: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. 18088
Database number:79844
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-25 12:13:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-25 12:13:28
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]