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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Tepeyacia corrugata Palmer 1928 rudist | |
Sabinia sp. Parona 1908 rudist | |
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist | |
Coalcomana ramosa Boehm 1898 rudist
Caprinuloidea perfecta Palmer 1928 rudist |