Finca Alambique (Cretaceous to of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.3° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 61.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cantabria Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• deposited in a calcareous marine platform
• poorly stratified limestone and marls, beige in color, cemented, durable, and recrystallized in some sections

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Municipal de Rodas (MMR), Cienfuegos Province

Primary reference: Y. Ceballos-Izquierdo, L. W. Viñola-López, C. R. Borges-Sellén and A. F. Arano-Ruiz. 2021. Late Cretaceous sharks from Cuba, first record of Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz) (Lamniformes, Serratolamnidae). Geobios 65:1-6 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220215: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.05.2021, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae
Serratolamna serrata
Serratolamna serrata Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus sp.
Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 mosasaur
MMR-7-001
Bivalvia
 Cardiiformii -
Hippuritida indet.
Hippuritida indet. Newell 1965 rudist
Rudicaprina-like rudists
Foraminifera
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Pseudorbitoides sp.