Buenos Aires area, sample 1316, Limon Basin: Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, Costa Rica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Stylophora monticulosa
Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Stylophora granulata
Duncan 1864
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Astrocoeniidae
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Stephanocoenia duncani
Foster 1987
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora cervicornis
(Lamarck 1816)
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Colpophyllia amaranthus
Müller 1775
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Caulastraea portoricensis
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2 specimens | ||||||
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= Caulastrea portoricensis
Coryell 1929
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Kiessling et al. 2011 | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Thysanus sp.
Duncan 1863
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastraea sp.
Blainville 1830
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Montastraea franksi
Gregory 1895
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Montastraea cavernosa
Linnaeus 1767
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Undaria agaricites
(Linnaeus 1758)
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Helioseris cucullata
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites furcata
Lamarck 1816
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Porites astreoides
Lamarck 1816
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Porites portoricensis
(Vaughan 1919)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Coordinates: | 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.6° North, 82.3° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean - Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Limon | Formation: | Quebrada Chocolate | Member: | Buenos Aires |
| Local section: | 33 | Local bed: | 563 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late Early-early Late Pliocene | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: coral thicket in a claystone matrix at the base of the Buenos Aires Member | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3597 | ||
| Database number: | 71384 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-24 04:48:31 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-04-24 04:48:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24129. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 35169 | W. Kiessling, C. Simpson, B. Beck and J. Pandolfi. 2011. Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data. [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |