Finca "Sunset", carratera de Cayajabos a Artemisa (Miocene to of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.8° N, 82.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 79.5° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Miocene in text; entered as Early Miocene-Middle Miocene to avoid orphaning. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but probably carbonate. LITHIFICATION: Unknown, but probably lithified.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sanchez Roig

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: M. Sanchez Roig. REPOSITORY: Sanchez Roig personal collection, as stated in text.

Primary reference: M. Sanchez-Roig. 1953. Nuevos Equinidos fosiles de la fauna Cubana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas Y Naturales de la Habana 41:136-176 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155875: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Echinoidea. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Paleopneustidae
Pericosmus valenzuelai n. sp., Pericosmus artemisae n. sp.
Pericosmus valenzuelai n. sp. Sanchez-Roig 1953 heart urchin
Pericosmus artemisae n. sp. Sanchez-Roig 1953 heart urchin