Also known as PPP# 282; CJ-88-14-09
Where: Costa Rica (9.4° N, 84.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.7° N, 82.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Miocene, according to Beu (2010); justification not provided in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Slipped reddish bed full of Anadara; Bed is situated above high tide line.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; red siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung et al. in 1988; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
• COLLECTOR: P. Jung & R. Panchaud, 21.3.1988. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136270: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Linatella caudata Gmelin 1791 triton shell |