Where: Limón, Costa Rica (8.9° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 83.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: terrestrial and marine vertebrates other zone, Curré Formation (Terraba Basin Group), Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, argillaceous, conglomeratic siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: C. Laurito, A. L. Valerio, E. Ovares, A. Hernández, and D. Pizarro. 2008. Peces Fósiles de la localidad Las Lomas de Siquirres cause del Río Reventazón, Formación Río Banano, Mioceno Superior, Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica [Fossils fishes of the Las Lomas de Siquirres Locality, Reventazon river, Rio Banano Formation, Late Miocene, Limon province, Costa Rica]. Revista Geológica de América Central 38:11-25 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122044: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 15.12.2011, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Eurhinodelphis sp. Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 toothed whale | |
Orycterocetus sp. Leidy 1853 sperm whale | |
Goniodelphis sp. Allen 1941 toothed whale | |
Hadrodelphis sp. Kellogg 1966 toothed whale |