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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Argyrotheca peculiaris n. sp.
Argyrotheca peculiaris n. sp. Cooper 1979 |