USNM Loc. 818i, Sagua La Grande (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.8° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cojimar Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, white marl

• soft, white to pale buff marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. J. Borro; 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 164837: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 18.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cryptoporidae
Cryptopora sp. Jeffreys 1869