Section B in Hacienda El Americano, Sierra de los Organos, western Cuba - III (Jurassic of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.7° N, 83.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 52.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Americano Member (Guasasa Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray limestone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• The Lower Tithonian strata of the Sierra de los Organos were laid down in a shallow, poorly ventilated sea. At the end of the Early Tithonian, the conditions of sedimentation changed slightly, mainly due to moderate deepening of the basin. In the Late Tithonian the basin was apparently shallower and the energy of the environment increased.
• 3 m. Dark-grey dolomitic limestone with reddenings due to oxidation in tops of beds and with intercalations of dark shaly limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

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 57719: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
"Hildoglochiceras (? Salinites) sp." = Salinites
"Hildoglochiceras (? Salinites) sp." = Salinites Cantu-Chapa 1968 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
? Pachysphinctes sp.
? Pachysphinctes sp. Dietrich ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Lytohoplites carribeanus
Lytohoplites carribeanus Imlay 1942 ammonite