Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.8° 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 73622: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montastraea cavernosa Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral |