Santa Elena Peninsula, uppermost of Descartes Fm (Eocene of Costa Rica)

Where: Costa Rica (10.9° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 85.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Descartes Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; cherty/siliceous mudstone and tuffaceous wackestone

• thin-bedded turbidites consisting of siliceous hemipelagic mudstones and lithic-arkosic, tuffaceous wackes and arenites

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Andjic, C. Baumgartner-Mora, and P. O. Baumgartner. 2016. An upper Paleogene shallowing-upward sequence in the southern Sandino Forearc Basin (NW Costa Rica): response to tectonic uplift. Facies 62(9) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179808: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 01.07.2016

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