Palmer Loc. 978, Casa Blanca (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yumuri Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• middle-basal Yumuri Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Palmer; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1979. Tertiary and Cretaceous Brachiopods from Cuba and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 37:1-45 [A. Hendy/K. Hendy/K. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164768: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 15.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cryptoporidae
Cryptopora sp. Jeffreys 1869