Where: Cuba (22.7° N, 83.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 52.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Americano Member (Guasasa Formation), Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• The limestone belongs to the upper part of the El Americano Formation, probably still Upper Tithonian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized
Primary reference: R. Myczynski. 1989. Ammonite biostratigraphy of the Tithonian of Western Cuba. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 59:43-125 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57708: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.12.2005
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