Buenos Aires area, sample 1387, Limon Basin (Pliocene to of Costa Rica)

Also known as Reef 3597

Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 10.6° N, 82.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buenos Aires Member (Quebrada Chocolate Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene to Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• late Early-early Late Pliocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• coral thicket in a claystone matrix at the base of the Buenos Aires Member

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 71383: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia fragum
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata, Porites baracoaensis, Porites portoricensis
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral