Where: Costa Rica (10.2° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 85.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Armuelles Formation (Charco Azul Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Armuelles Formation. AGE: Pleistocene, according to Ingle (1985) on the basis of microfossils; direct date estimated based on other collections from the Armuelles Formation. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by A.A. Olsson. REPOSITORIES: Collections reposited at PRI.
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1942. Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 27(106):1-106 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66778: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Seila sp. Adams 1861 snail | |
Caecum cf. suave snail | |
Teinostoma sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Circulus sp. Jeffreys 1842 snail | |
"Marginella minor" = Volvarina taeniata
"Marginella minor" = Volvarina taeniata Sowerby 1846 margin shell | |
"Marginella margaritula" = Granulina margaritula
"Marginella margaritula" = Granulina margaritula Carpenter 1857 snail | |
Philbertia trichodes snail | |
Hanetia elegans true whelk
Nassa sp. Röding 1798 true whelk | |
"Alvania bartschi" = Solariorbis bartschi
"Alvania bartschi" = Solariorbis bartschi Vanatta 1913 snail | |
"Turbonilla (Strioturbonilla) aff. thyne" = Strioturbonilla, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) sp.
"Turbonilla (Strioturbonilla) aff. thyne" = Strioturbonilla snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Condylocardia panamensis" = Condylocardia hippopus
"Condylocardia panamensis" = Condylocardia hippopus Morch 1861 clam |