Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lomas del Mar Member (Moin Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• 1.9-1.5 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified siltstone
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 71735: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
"Manicina mayori" = Manicina areolata
"Manicina mayori" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
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Placocyathus variabilis Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
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Agaricia undata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Agaricia grahamae Wells 1973 stony coral
Agaricia lamarcki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
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Porites branneri Rathbun 1887 stony coral | |
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Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral | |
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Montastraea cylindrica Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Montastraea franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral | |