PPP# 718 - 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
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreola sp. Monterosato 1884
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
277 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
1 specimen
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
13 specimens
Lucinisca sp. Dall 1901
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
5 specimens
sensu lato
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
2 specimens
Lirophora sp. Conrad 1863
2 specimens
Pitar sp. Römer 1857
1 specimen
1 specimen
Macrocallista (Megapitaria) sp. (Grant and Gale 1931)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925
10 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Fissidentalium sp. Fischer 1885
5 specimens
2 specimens
sensu lato
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
36 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia sp. Gray 1847
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea sp. Valenciennes 1833
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
15 specimens
sensu lato
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Metula sp. Adams and Adams 1853
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis sp. Montfort 1810
1 specimen
Murex sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta sp. Linnaeaus 1758
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Volvarina sp. (Hinds 1844)
4 specimens
Prunum sp. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
Glabella sp. Swainson 1840
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Lepicythara sp. Olsson 1964
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Astraea sp. Röding 1798
1 specimen
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Bullidae
155 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: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. 18110
Database number:79993
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 19:40:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-31 19:40:09
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]