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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816
6 specimens
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919
3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Undaria agaricites (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
recombined as Agaricia agaricites
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
3 specimens
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria labyrinthiformis (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Manicina areolata (Linnaeus 1758)
3 specimens
Manicina mayori Wells 1936
1 specimen
synonym of Manicina areolata
Manicina puntagordensis Weisbord 1968
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Thysanus sp. Duncan 1863
3 specimens
Favia fragum (Esper 1795)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Caulastraea portoricensis
4 specimens
    = Caulastrea portoricensis Coryell 1929
Kiessling et al. 2011
Montastraea limbata
3 specimens
    = Montastrea limbata Duncan 1863
Kiessling et al. 2011
recombined as Orbicella limbata
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.9° North, 82.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 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:2007-04-25 03:18:06
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-25 00:18:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]