Also known as NMB Loc. 18106
Where: Limon, Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 83.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Moin Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Moin Formation sits conformably on the Quebrada Chocolate Fomation and has no upper contact; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue, silty claystone and volcaniclastic, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Panchaud in 1989; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud, et al., 8.4.1989. REPOSITORIES: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79845: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 25.03.2008, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Gardineria minor Wells 1973 stony coral | |
Hydrozoa | |
Stylaster roseus Pallas 1766 lace coral | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Adeonellopsis "n. sp. 3" MacGillivray 1886 | |
Discoporella "n. sp. 6" d'Orbigny 1852
Cupuladria aff. biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923 | |
Hippopleurifera "n. sp. 2" Canu and Bassler 1927 | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Triptychus sp. Mörch 1875 snail | |
Mathilda sp. Semper 1865 snail | |
"Euchelus (Mirachelus) sp." = Mirachelus
"Euchelus (Mirachelus) sp." = Mirachelus Woodring 1928 snail | |
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail | |
Solariorbis sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
Arene sp. Adams and Adams 1854 snail | |
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail
Fissurella sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Styliola sp. Gray 1850 snail | |
"Siliquaria sp." = Tenagodus
"Siliquaria sp." = Tenagodus Guettard 1770 snail | |
Alabina sp. Dall 1902 cerith snail | |
Vermicularia sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
? Vanikoro sp. Quoy and Gaimard 1832 snail | |
Cirsotrema sp. Mörch 1852 wentletrap | |
cf. Maesiella sp. McLean 1971 snail
? Maesiella sp. McLean 1971 snail
Crassispira (Crassispira) sp. Swainson 1840 snail
Compsodrillia sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Alvania sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Granulina sp. Jousseaume 1888 snail
Persicula sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Coralliophila sp. Adams and Adams 1853 murex snail | |
Olivella (Minioliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Mitrella sp., "Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis)
Mitrella sp. Risso 1826 snail
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis) Sacco 1890 snail | |
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Daphnella sp. Hinds 1844 snail | |
Cerodrillia sp. Bartsch and Rehder 1939 snail | |
? Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
"Mitrolumna sp." = Mitromorpha
"Mitrolumna sp." = Mitromorpha Carpenter 1865 snail | |
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia) Loven 1846 snail | |
Sedilia sp. Fargo 1953 turrid | |
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus
"Petaloconchus sp." = Petaloconchus Lea 1843 worm shell | |
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
Circulus sp. Jeffreys 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Lamellinucula) sp. Schenck 1944 nut clam | |
Callucina sp. Dall 1901 clam | |
Cyclinella sp. Dall 1902 venus clam
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847 venus clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Arcopsis sp. Koenen 1885 clam | |
Limopsis sp. Sassi 1827 clam | |
Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835 oyster
? Dendostrea sp. Swainson 1835 oyster | |
Dimya sp. Rouault 1850 scallop | |
? Spathochlamys sp. Waller 1993 scallop |