Cienfuegos (Cretaceous of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.2° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 59.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Las Moscas Member (Arimao Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• dark coloured, nodular bioclastic limestones intercalated within volcano-sedimentary rocks

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100121: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

• tax. list from MacGillavry 1937 and Kantshev 1976
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Austiniceras sp." = Parapuzosia (Austiniceras)
"Austiniceras sp." = Parapuzosia (Austiniceras) Spath 1922 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Paralenticeras aff. stevensi
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Texanites sp.
Texanites sp. Spath 1932 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites inaequicostatus
Vaccinites inaequicostatus rudist
subsp. macgillavryi