Also known as NMB Loc. 18079

Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lomas del Mar Member (Moin Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• 1.7-1.9 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jung & Panchaud in 1989; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Peter Jung, R. Panchaud, et al., 2.4.1989. REPOSITORY: NMB, Basel, Switzerland

Primary reference: S. D. Cairns. 1995. New records of azooxanthellate stony corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia and Stylasteridae) from the Neogene of Panama and Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3):533-550 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91911: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.10.2009, edited by Austin Hendy

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