Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 81.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Matanzas Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71135: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster
"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
Agaricia dominicensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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"Thysanus hayesi n. sp." = Thysanus excentricus
"Thysanus hayesi n. sp." = Thysanus excentricus Duncan 1863 stony coral |