Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Rosa Member (Moin Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified siltstone and lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. F. Budd, K. G. Johnson, T. A. Stemann and B. H. Tompkins. 1999. Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357:119-158 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71412: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora sp. fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa, Manicina areolata
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Caulastrea portoricensis, "Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata
Caulastrea portoricensis Coryell 1929 stony coral
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Thysanus sp. Duncan 1863 stony coral |