Where: Costa Rica (9.7° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 85.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Montezuma Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Montezuma Formation. AGE: Pleistocene, according to Baumgartner et al. (1984, p. 96, 126); justification not provided in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Fossiliferous outcrop is about 100 m long and about 1 m thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung et al. in 1984; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Jung, P., Baugmartner, P., and Mora, C., 1984. 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 136542: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Semicassis centiquadrata Valenciennes 1832 snail | |
Bursa rugosa Sowerby 1835 frog shell |