Pueblo Nuevo: Early Pleistocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Platyxanthidae
Platyxanthus sp. Milne-Edwards 1863
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Platylambrus spinulatus Collins and Todd 2005
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica State/province:Limon
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.3° North, 82.7° West (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moin Member:Pueblo Nuevo Sand
Stratigraphy comments: Underlying Formation: Quebrada Chocolate Formation. Overlying Formation: Quaternary Alluvium and Late Pleistocene Reefs. Thickness: About 200 m. Within the Moin Formation, the Pueblo Nuevo Sand Member sometimes comes in contact with the Quebrada Chocolate Formation as well as the Empalme Mollusk. (McNeil et al, 2000).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: The Pueblo Nuevo Sands are described by McNeil et al, 2000, as being a sandstone that is marine in nature and weathered.
Environment:paralic indet.
Geology comments: Data from the species in the Pueblo Nuevo Sand Member represent shallow marine and intertidal conditions, as well as brackish water conditions from mangroves, mud flats, and freshwater inputs from streams. (Robinson 1991; McNeil et al, 2000).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:228539
Authorizer:J. Wolfe Enterer:A. Lynch
Created:2022-12-12 14:40:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2022-12-12 14:40:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
32674. J. A. Todd and J. S. H. Collins. 2005. Neogene and Quaternary crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected from Costa Rica and Panama by members of the Panama Paleontology Project. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 32:53-85 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]