Tempisque 6.8 (Paleocene of Costa Rica)

Where: Guanacaste, Costa Rica (10.3° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.5° N, 84.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Barra Honda Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; wackestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. Baumgartner-Mora and P. O. Baumgartner. 2016. Paleocene-earliest Eocene larger benthic foraminifera and Ranikothalia-bearing carbonate paleo-environments of Costa Rica (South Central America). Micropaleontology 62(6):453-508 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215867: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 26.11.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Melobesioideae "indet." Bizzozero 1885
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891
 Peyssonneliales - Rhodymeniophycidae
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae