PPP# 715 - Pueblo Nuevo [Moin Fm]: Late Pliocene, Costa Rica
collected by Jung & Panchaud 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Ostreola sp. Monterosato 1884
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
2 specimens
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
1 specimen
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cardiomya sp. Adams 1864
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
1 specimen
Solecurtus sp. Blainville 1824
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyclinella sp. Dall 1902
1 specimen
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863
13 specimens
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811
1 specimen
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Pitar sp. Römer 1857
3 specimens
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. (Grant and Gale 1931)
13 specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
19 specimens
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
? Macrocypraea sp. Woodring 1957
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
sensu lato
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Natica (Naticarius) sp. (Dumeril 1806)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Bullidae
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798
5 specimens
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The Moin Formation sits conformably on the Quebrada Chocolate Fromation 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: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
Collectors:Jung & Panchaud Collection dates:1989
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud, et al., 8.4.1989. 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. 18108
Database number:79992
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 19:28:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-31 19:28:58
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]