Buenos Aires area, sample 1366, Limon Basin: Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
2 specimens
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria labyrinthiformis (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Manicina puntagordensis Weisbord 1968
1 specimen
Manicina areolata (Linnaeus 1758)
3 specimens
Manicina mayori Wells 1936
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastraea limbata
3 specimens
    = Montastrea limbata Duncan 1863
Kiessling et al. 2011
Caulastraea portoricensis
4 specimens
    = Caulastrea portoricensis Coryell 1929
Kiessling et al. 2011
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia fragum (Esper 1795)
1 specimen
Thysanus sp. Duncan 1863
3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Undaria agaricites (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816
6 specimens
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919
3 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:664 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: late Early-early Late Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: coral- and mollusk-rich carbonate sandstone, interbedded with the reefs of the Buenos Aires Member
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:71409
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-04-25 00:18:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-25 00:18:03
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]