Tempisque CM 1533: Thanetian, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nummulitidae
Florideophyceae - Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon sp. (Rothpletz 1891)
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Distichoplax biserialis (Dieterich 1927)
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Florideophyceae - Peyssonneliales - Peyssonneliaceae
Polystrata alba (Pfender 1936)
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica State/province:Guanacaste
Coordinates: 10.3° North, 85.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.2° North, 76.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
Stage: Thanetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
Key time interval: Thanetian
Age range of interval: 59.24 - 56 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Barra Honda
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: packstone
Secondary lithology: rudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:215869
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Hassell
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2020-11-26 14:57:11 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-11-26 14:57:11
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
74501. C. Baumgartner-Mora and P. O. Baumgartner. 2016. Paleocene-earliest Eocene larger benthic foraminifera and Ranikothalia-bearing carbonate paleo-environments of Costa Rica (South Central America). Micropaleontology 62(6):453-508 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]