Where: Guanacaste, Costa Rica (9.4° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° N, 84.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Barra Honda Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone
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 215875: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 26.11.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Florideophyceae | |
Melobesioideae "indet." Bizzozero 1885 |