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 71756: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
Montastraea sp., Montastraea faveolata, Montastraea cavernosa, Montastraea cylindrica, Montastraea franksi
Montastraea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Montastraea cavernosa Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
Montastraea cylindrica Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastraea franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral | |
Stephanocoenia intersepta, Stephanocoenia duncani, "Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster, Madracis decactis
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral
Stephanocoenia duncani Foster 1987 stony coral
"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral | |
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Agaricia undata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Agaricia lamarcki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Agaricia grahamae Wells 1973 stony coral | |
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Porites branneri Rathbun 1887 stony coral | |