Buenos Aires area, sample 1370, Limon Basin: Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816
2 specimens
see common names

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:630 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 green-blue claystone
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:71393
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-04-24 06:14:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-24 06:14:52
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]