Section A in Hacienda El Americano, Sierra de los Organos, western Cuba - VI (Cretaceous to of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.7° N, 83.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 52.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tumbadero Member (Guasasa Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian to Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 136.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified lime mudstone and lithified chert

• During the Early Cretaceous the environment of the Sierra de los Organos was one of deeper waters.
• 40 m. Dark micritic limestone with thin-bedded chert.

Size class: microfossils

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 57716: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Tintinopsella carpathica
Protozoa
 Calpionellida -
Calpionellopsis simplex, ? Calpionellopsis oblonga