Santiago [La Cruz Fm] (Pliocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (20.0° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.1° N, 75.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Cruz Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71132: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.04.2007, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea hyades Dana 1846 stony coral
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Thysanus aff. excentricus Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides, Porites porites, "Goniopora jacobiana n. sp." = Goniopora hilli
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
"Goniopora jacobiana n. sp." = Goniopora hilli Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora affinis Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Mimachlamys landi" = Chlamys (Mimachlamys) scallop
Interchlamys interlineata Gabb 1873 scallop
Interchlamys jacobiana Cooke 1919 scallop