Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• "Early or Middle Miocene is the best that can be done with the mollusks from the locality near Turrucares." (pg. 496)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; fine-grained sandstone and sandy siltstone
Size class: microfossils
Collected by Malavassi in 1957; reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTOR: E. Malavassi V, 1957. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring and E. Malavassi V. 1961. Miocene Foraminifera, Mollusks, and a Barnacle from the Valle Central, Costa Rica. Journal of Paleontology 35(3):489-497 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143215: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 20.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Globothalamea | |
| Foraminifera | |
Globigerinoides transitorius, Globigerinoides trilobus, Globigerinoides cf. ruber, Globigerina bulloides, Biorbulina bilobata, Globoquadrina altispira, Orbulina suturalis
Globigerinoides trilobus Reuss 1850
Globigerinoides cf. ruber d'Orbigny 1839
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny 1826
Globoquadrina altispira Cushman and Jarvis 1936
Orbulina suturalis Bronnimann 1951 | |
| Nodosariata | |
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Plectofrondicularia sp. Liebus 1902 | |
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Saracenaria sp. Defrance 1824 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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