Also known as Reef 3597
Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Buenos Aires Reef Member (Quebrada Chocolate Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene to Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• 3.7-3.6 Ma, late Early-early Late Pliocene
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Bauch, J. J. G. Reijmer, D. F. McNeill and P. Schäfer. 2011. Development of a Pliocene mixed-carbonate siliciclastic reef (Limon, Costa Rica). Sedimentary Geology 239:37-47 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 198246: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Bolivina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
unclassified | |
Rhodophyta indet. Wettstein 1922 |