Also known as Reef 3597

Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buenos Aires Member (Quebrada Chocolate Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene to Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• 3.7-3.6 Ma, late Early-early Late Pliocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and siliciclastic

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124271: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.02.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause

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