Yumuri River, Matanzas (Pliocene of Cuba)

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
"Thysanus hayesi n. sp." = Thysanus excentricus
"Thysanus hayesi n. sp." = Thysanus excentricus Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
var. matanzasensis
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia dominicensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster
"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral