Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 82.2° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Punta Pelada Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Punta Pelada Fm, which unconformably overlies and is laterally equivalent to the Senosri Fm (Late Eocene-Early Miocene) and is unconformably overlain by the Uscari Fm (Early-Late Miocene). THICKNESS: From beds with section of no more than 25 m. AGE: Late Oligocene to Early Miocene. Placed in the Late Oligocene by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From beds throughout section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Aguilar

• COLLECTOR: T. Aguilar-Alvarez. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the Universidad de Costa Rica

Primary reference: T. Aguilar. 1999. Organismos de un arrecife fósil (Oligoceno Superior-Mioceno Inferior), del Caribe de Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 47(3) [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77791: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.01.2008

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