Mogote la Mina (Jurassic of Cuba)
Where: Cuba (22.7° N, 83.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 83.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zacarias Member (Jagua Formation), Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale
• shallow near-shore
• coquina layer in clayey shales
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Pugaczewska. 1978. Jurassic pelecypods from Cuba. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 23(2):163-186 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98375: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.10.2010
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Bivalvia | |
Plicatula cf. weymouthiana scallop | |
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, Liostrea sandalina
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Liostrea sandalina oyster | |
Ostrea broughtoni oyster |