Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 78.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Güines Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Acording to Bermúdez, in Miller & Downs (1950): "In this section the only beds which really are of limestone belong to the lower Miocene, Güines formation. This cavernous limestone is characterized by the abundance of macrofossils but shows very poor conditions of preservation. Below this limestone there is a good marl formation (upper Oligocene, Cojimar formation) with abundant microfauna. It is possible that the type locality of Aturia cubaensis is in the Guines formation rather than in the Cojimar formation." A later Aturia specimen collected from the Güines Formation at Yumurí Gorge, "like the holotype of A. cubaensis, is preserved in "hard fine-grained white limestone", and the two most probably came from the same formation and represent only one species."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Louis Vanuxem; reposited in the ANSP

Primary reference: I. Lea. 1841. Notice of the oolitic formation in America, with descriptions of some of its organic remains. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 7:251-260 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166232: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 06.02.2015

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