USNM 3439 (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (23.0° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphy. AGE: Assumed to be Early Miocene, based on correlations to Tampa Limeston (Arcadia Formation = Late Oligocene-Early Miocene). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within local section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not described in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, appears to be siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on illustrated specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Vaughn; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: T. W. Vaughn. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington 105-156 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75307: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Includes gastropoda and bivalvia.
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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Florimetis chipolana
Florimetis chipolana Dall 1900 tellin clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) crucianus n. sp." = Interchlamys interlineata, Pecten (Pecten) ventonensis n. sp., Pecten vaughani
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) crucianus n. sp." = Interchlamys interlineata Gabb 1873 scallop
Pecten (Pecten) ventonensis n. sp. Cooke 1919 scallop
Pecten vaughani Cooke 1919 scallop
SUBSPECIES: P. vaughani flabellum