NMB Loc. 17764 - Punta Judas (Miocene of Costa Rica)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but likely from a shallow marine siliciclastic facies.
• LITHOLOGY: Red sediments; assumed siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

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

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Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Linatella caudata Gmelin 1791 triton shell