Palmer Loc. 1245, Santa Maria del Rosario (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Probably Miocene according to Cooper (no age given by Palmer)

• 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 166603: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 19.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca peculiaris n. sp. Cooper 1979