geologic group
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in
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
. It preserves
fossils
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dating back to the
Late Miocene
The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch (geology), Epoch made up of two faunal stage, stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch, which lasted from 11.63 Ma (million ye ...
to
Early Pleistocene
The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, being the earliest division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently estimated to span the time ...
Fossilworks
Fossilworks is a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database
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Río Banano Formation
The Río Banano Formation is a geologic formation in Costa Rica of the Limón Group. It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle Miocene to Piacenzian period.
Fossil content
* '' Aphera bananensis''
* ''Isopisthus acer
''Isopisthus'' is ...
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Costa Rica
This page lists the fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Central America.
Belize
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
See also
* Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic un ...