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
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 | |
Cryptopora sp. Jeffreys 1869 |