USNM 3652, 5312 (Eocene to of Cuba)

Also known as Angela Elmira Mine

Where: Cuba (22.9° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° N, 71.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 38.0 Ma)

• Kiel & Hansen (2015) update the age to be either Ypresian or Bartonian.

•STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphy. AGE: Stated in text to be doubtfully Oligocene. All taxa are new species, but given that all other collections that were stated to be Oligocene are in fact probably Early to Middle Miocene this collection is assumed here to be Early Miocene. Assignments for other collections are 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; unlithified tar

• methane-seep
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Asphalt beds. LITHIFICATION: Mostly unlithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Wiebusch; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Obtained by Wiebusch. 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 75318: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Includes gastropoda and bivalvia.
Gastropoda
  -
Elmira cornuarietis n. gen. n. sp.
Elmira cornuarietis n. gen. n. sp. Cooke 1919 snail
 Pectinibranchia -
Margarita naticoides n. sp. Cooke 1919 snail
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Hemisinus bituminifer n. sp. Cooke 1919 snail
Hemisinus costatus n. sp. Cooke 1919 snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Levifusus angelicus n. sp. Cooke 1919 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
"Cypraea semen n. sp." = Eocypraea (Apiocypraea) semen
"Cypraea semen n. sp." = Eocypraea (Apiocypraea) semen Cooke 1919 snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Myrtaea asphaltica n. sp. Cooke 1919 clam
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio bitumen n. sp.
Unio bitumen n. sp. Cooke 1919 freshwater mussel
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya sulcifera n. sp. Cooke 1919 Awning Clam