Where: Cuba (20.0° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 72.1° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphy. AGE: Assumed to be Early Miocene, based on correlations to Tampa Limeston (Arcadia Formation = Late Oligocene-Early Miocene). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within local section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Black; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Fred P. Black. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington 105-156 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75310: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.10.2007

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