Where: Cuba (22.7° N, 83.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 52.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Americano Member (Guasasa Formation), Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• belongs to the upper part of the El Americano Formation; Upper Tithonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: R. Myczynski. 1989. Ammonite biostratigraphy of the Tithonian of Western Cuba. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 59:43-125 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57204: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Cephalopoda | |
Lamellaptychus sp. Trauth 1927 ammonoid aptychus | |
? Haploceras sp. Zittel 1870 ammonite
? Haploceras aff. veracruzanum Cantu Chapa 1976 ammonite | |
Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) gallardoi, "Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) grossicostatum" = Salinites grossicostatum, ? Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) aff. ecarinatum, "Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) aff. inflatum" = Salinites inflatum
Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) gallardoi Chudoley and Furrazola 1968 ammonite
"Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) grossicostatum" = Salinites grossicostatum Imlay 1939 ammonite
? Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) aff. ecarinatum Imlay 1939 ammonite
"Hildoglochiceras (Salinites) aff. inflatum" = Salinites inflatum Imlay 1939 ammonite | |
Durangites aff. acanthicus Burckhardt 1912 ammonite | |
Kossmatia cf. bifurcata Aguilera 1895 ammonite | |
Phanerostephanus sp. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Buchia aff. okensis Pavlow 1907 scallop |