Where: Costa Rica (9.6° N, 82.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.1° N, 82.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Banano Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: The Rio Banano Formation sits diachronously with abrupt lithological transition on the Uscari Formation, mostly conformably and sometimes disconformably. The Rio Banano Formation passes conformably into the Quebrada Chocolate Formation in the area immediately west of Limon but throughout most of the southern Limon Basin it is unconformably overlain by the breccia and coarse grained volcaniclastics of the Suretka Formation. AGE: direct date extrapolated from Bybell (1999) and Collins et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is representative of formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Olsson, A. REPOSITORY: PRI.
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1922. The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(39):1-309 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134664: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Typhis linguliformis costaricensis murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Gastropoda | |
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus Guppy 1866 worm shell | |
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Alectrion ranuncula Olsson 1922 snail | |
Strombina matima, "Strombina sincola" = Sincola (Sincola) sincola
Strombina matima Olsson 1922 snail
"Strombina sincola" = Sincola (Sincola) sincola Olsson 1922 snail | |
"Phos veatchi n. sp." = Cymatophos veatchi Olsson 1922 true whelk
Metula cancellata Gabb 1873 true whelk
Solenosteira vaughani medioamericana Olsson 1922 true whelk | |
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"Terebra spirifera" = Strioterebrum spiriferum
"Terebra spirifera" = Strioterebrum spiriferum Dall 1895 auger snail | |
Conus cf. interstinctus Guppy 1866 cone shell | |
"Ancistrosyrinx elegans" = Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) elegans
"Ancistrosyrinx elegans" = Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) elegans Dall 1881 snail | |
Drillia musacina Olsson 1922 snail | |
"Cythara terminula costaricensis" = Lepicythara heptagona
"Cythara terminula costaricensis" = Lepicythara heptagona Gabb 1873 turrid | |
"Turricula lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis
"Turricula lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis Olsson 1922 ribbed mitre | |
"Marginella collina n. sp." = Volvarina collina
"Marginella collina n. sp." = Volvarina collina Olsson 1922 margin shell | |
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Corbula vieta" = Varicorbula vieta, "Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula
"Corbula vieta" = Varicorbula vieta Guppy 1866 clam
"Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula Olsson 1922 clam | |
Semele laevis costaricensis Olsson 1922 clam | |
Tellina (Tellidora) cristata Récluz 1842 tellin clam | |
"Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum" = Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) stiriatum
"Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum" = Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) stiriatum Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cockle | |
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"Callocardia gatunensis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis
"Callocardia gatunensis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis Dall 1903 venus clam | |
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon Hanley 1846 oyster | |
"Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis, "Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri
"Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis Olsson 1922 ark
"Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri Dall 1912 ark | |
"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi
"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi Dall 1912 clam |