Sierra de Caiguanabo, near Vinales (Jurassic to of Cuba)

Where: Pinar del Rio, Cuba (22.6° N, 83.6° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° N, 83.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jagua Vieja Member (Jagua Formation), Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Jagua Formation, Jagua Vieja Member, middle–late Oxfordian, Late Jurassic

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale

• low energy, shallow water, near shore
• concretion within dark shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: MNHNCu P3005 was discovered by the farmer Juan Gallardo in 1946

Primary reference: Z. Gasparini. 2009. A new Oxfordian pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) in the Caribbean Seaway. Palaeontology 52(3):661-669 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90435: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Gallardosaurus iturraldei n. gen. n. sp.
Gallardosaurus iturraldei n. gen. n. sp. Gasparini 2009 plesiosaur