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 | |
Cryptopora sp. Jeffreys 1869 |