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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Typhis linguliformis costaricensis murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Gastropoda | |
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917 moon snail | |
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus
"Serpulorbis papulosa" = Serpulorbis papulosus Guppy 1866 worm shell | |
Metula cancellata Gabb 1873 true whelk
Solenosteira vaughani medioamericana Olsson 1922 true whelk
"Phos veatchi n. sp." = Cymatophos veatchi Olsson 1922 true whelk | |
"Strombina sincola" = Sincola (Sincola) sincola, Strombina matima
"Strombina sincola" = Sincola (Sincola) sincola Olsson 1922 dove shell
Strombina matima Olsson 1922 dove shell | |
Alectrion ranuncula Olsson 1922 snail | |
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"Marginella collina n. sp." = Volvarina collina
"Marginella collina n. sp." = Volvarina collina Olsson 1922 margin shell | |
Drillia musacina Olsson 1922 snail | |
"Turricula lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis
"Turricula lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis Olsson 1922 snail | |
"Ancistrosyrinx elegans" = Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) elegans
"Ancistrosyrinx elegans" = Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) elegans Dall 1881 snail | |
"Terebra spirifera" = Strioterebrum spiriferum
"Terebra spirifera" = Strioterebrum spiriferum Dall 1895 auger snail | |
"Cythara terminula costaricensis" = Lepicythara heptagona
"Cythara terminula costaricensis" = Lepicythara heptagona Gabb 1873 turrid | |
Conus cf. interstinctus Guppy 1866 cone shell | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula, "Corbula vieta" = Varicorbula vieta
"Corbula oropendula" = Caryocorbula oropendula Olsson 1922 clam
"Corbula vieta" = Varicorbula vieta Guppy 1866 clam | |
"Callocardia gatunensis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis
"Callocardia gatunensis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis Dall 1903 venus clam | |
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"Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum" = Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) stiriatum
"Cardium (Trachycardium) stiriatum" = Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) stiriatum Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cockle | |
Tellina (Tellidora) cristata Récluz 1842 tellin clam | |
Semele laevis costaricensis Olsson 1922 clam | |
"Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri, "Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis
"Arca pittieri" = Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri Dall 1912 ark
"Arca (Scapharca) costaricensis" = Anadara (Rasia) costaricensis Olsson 1922 ark | |
"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi
"Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi" = Noetia macdonaldi Dall 1912 clam | |
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon Hanley 1846 arc oyster |