Empalme area, sample 719, Limon Basin: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Costa Rica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816
1 specimen
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Undaria agaricites (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Eusmilia fastigiata (Pallas 1766)
1 specimen
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
1 specimen
Dichocoenia stellaris Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
1 specimen
Meandrina sp. Lamarck 1801
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
3 specimens
Kiessling et al. 2011
1 specimen
    = Caulastrea portoricensis Coryell 1929
Kiessling et al. 2011
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia natans (Houttuyn 1772)
1 specimen
Colpophyllia amaranthus Müller 1775
2 specimens
Diploria strigosa (Dana 1846)
1 specimen
1 specimen
[entered as Mussismilia hartti]
Manicina areolata (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
2 specimens
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing and Michelotti 1860)
1 specimen
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea sp. Blainville 1830
1 specimen
1 specimen
Montastraea cavernosa Linnaeus 1767
1 specimen
Hydrozoa - Milleporina
1 specimen
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 83.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.3° North, 82.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene - Quaternary Epoch: Pliocene - Pleistocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 0.774 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Limon Formation:Moin Member:Santa Rosa
Local section:34 Local bed:86 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified claystone
Lithology description: grey-blue silty claystone, rich in molluscs
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:71419
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-04-25 04:09:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-25 04:09:37
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]