TU 953 - Pueblo Nuevo [Moin Fm]: Late Pliocene, Costa Rica
collected by Vokes & Vokes

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Monoplex krebsii (Mörch 1877)
Beu 2010 2 specimens
Charonia variegata (Lamarck 1816)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Vokes 1975
Vokes 1974
Vokes and D'Attilio 1980
Gertman 1969
Gertman 1969
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° North, 82.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Formation:Moin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Moin Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Pliocene; following Collins and Coates (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:Vokes & Vokes
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History; USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:92697
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-24 18:00:37 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-11-24 18:00:37
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31182. E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31231 R. L. Gertman. 1969. Cenozoic Typhinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Western Atlantic region. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 7(4):143-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31296 E. H. Vokes. 1974. Notes on Chicoreus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Cenozoic of the Western Atlantic region with the description on new species. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 11(2):81-95 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31301 E. H. Vokes. 1975. Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part VI - Aspella and Dermomurex. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 11(3):121-162 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31320 E. H. Vokes and A. D'Attilio. 1980. Pygmaepterys, a newly described taxon of Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with the description of three new species from the Cenozoic of the Western Atlantic. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 16(2):45-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]