Palmer Loc. 377, SE end of Yumuri Gorge (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 78.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 164860: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 24.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca serrata n. sp. Cooper 1979
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
? Terebratulina palmeri n. sp. Cooper 1979