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

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra fourtaui" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae