Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Rosa Member (Moin Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71418: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Dichocoenia caloosahatcheensis Weisbord 1974 stony coral | |
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Montastraea franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
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Porites branneri Rathbun 1887 stony coral | |
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
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Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
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"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Stephanocoenia duncani Foster 1987 stony coral
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral | |