Contact Cut, reef stage 2, back-reef: Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria clivosa (Ellis and Solander 1786)
recombined as Pseudodiploria clivosa
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus perplexus Sowerby 1857
Conus (Ximeniconus) perplexus Sowerby 1857
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus gracilior Sowerby 1825
recombined as Strombus (Strombus) gracilior
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris delessertii (Reeve 1843)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Porcellanidae
Pachycheles stevensii Stimpson 1858
Stimpson 1858
Stimpson, 1858
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.8° North, 82.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Quebrada Chocolate Member:Buenos Aires
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 3.7-3.6 Ma, late Early-early Late Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: The back reef consists of small patches of coral. The patches are smaller than those in Stage 1, measured from 1 to 3 m high and 2 to 6 m wide.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: stage 2: beginning of siliciclastic input, transition fringing to barrier reef, close to coast, max. water depth 20 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3597
Database number:124270
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, C. Schweitzer Enterer:U. Merkel, E. Johnson, M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-02-10 02:33:32 Last modified:2012-02-09 09:33:32
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-02-10 02:33:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40044. T. Bauch, J. J. G. Reijmer, D. F. McNeill and P. Schäfer. 2011. Development of a Pliocene mixed-carbonate siliciclastic reef (Limon, Costa Rica). Sedimentary Geology 239:37-47 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

44427decapod W. Stimpson. 1858. Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, que in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaiadaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10:225-252 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/E. Johnson]