Tumbadero (Cretaceous of Cuba)

Where: Holguín, Cuba (21.1° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 49.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• "lower Aptian"

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• "developed on the outer margin of the Cretaceous Bahamian carbonate platform"
• "Grey-weathering, cream coloured bioclastic grainstones and packstones... with up to a half-metre thick bands containing abundant worn and fragmented shells of rudists, gastropods and corals, with algal coatings"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Rojas, M. Iturralde-Vinent, and P. W. Skelton. 1995. Stratigraphy, composition and age of Cuban rudist-bearing deposits. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 12(2):272-291 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115257: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 31.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Caprina douvillei, Offneria cf. interrupta, ? Pachytraga paradoxa
 Hippuritida - Caprinuloideidae
Amphitriscoelus waringi
Amphitriscoelus waringi Harris and Hodson 1922 rudist