Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early-Late Miocene, based on correlation of echinoid faunas with other assemblages; appears similar in age to Mesón and Tuxpan Fms of Mesico and the Ojo de Agua Fm of Venezuela. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Malavassi in 1957; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Malavassi V, 1957. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1961. Miocene echinoids from the Valle Central, Costa Rica. Journal of Paleontology 35(3):480-488 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92098: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.10.2009, edited by Pedro Monarrez

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