Palmer Loc. 405a, Cojimar Gorge (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.6° N, 83.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, white marl

• white 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 164958: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Tichosina guppyi n. sp. Cooper 1979