Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moin Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Moin Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Pliocene; following Collins and Coates (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Vokes & Vokes
• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History; USNM.
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96519: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Varicorbula disparilis d'Orbigny 1853 clam | |
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"Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis" = Architectonica nobilis10
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Attiliosa aldridgei8, Favartia (Pygmaepterys) germainae8, Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum7, Chicoreus (Siratus) consuela7, Chicoreus (Siratus) springeri7, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) prolixus7, Haustellum rubidus7, Haustellum olssoni7, Haustellum cabritii7, Pterynotus (Pterynotus) phyllopterus8, Pterotyphis (Pterotyphis) pinnatus8, Murexiella (Murexiella) hidalgoi8, "Typhina expansa" = Typhina expansa5, "Typhis (Talityphis) expansus" = Typhina expansa8
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Monoplex krebsii2, Monoplex comptus2, Monoplex pilearis2, Turritriton labiosus2, Septa occidentalis2, Aspa marginata2, Halgyrineum louisae2, Charonia variegata2, Cymatium femorale2
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