Southern Las Villas Province (Cretaceous of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.0° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 58.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Provincial Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Tepeyacia Beds - Original age call: Cenomanian to Early Turonian

•The last occurrence of Ichthyosarcolites marks the Cenomanian/Turonian (C/T)

•boundary (Philip & Airaud-Crumiere, 1991). Tepeyacia corrugata is also limited to Cenomanian and older

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Torre. 1960. Notas sobre rudistas [Notes about rudists]. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural 25(1):51-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73278: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Polyconitidae
Tepeyacia corrugata Palmer 1928 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Sabinia sp. Parona 1908 rudist
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinuloideidae
Coalcomana ramosa Boehm 1898 rudist
Caprinuloidea perfecta Palmer 1928 rudist