Finca "La Caoba", loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos: Late/Upper Eocene, Cuba
collected by Sanchez Roig

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Paraster delgadoi n. sp. Sanchez-Roig 1953
Paraster pinarensis n. sp. Sanchez-Roig 1953
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 22.6° North, 83.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.8° North, 76.2° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "carbonate"
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but probably carbonate. LITHIFICATION: Unknown, but probably lithified.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Sanchez Roig
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: M. Sanchez Roig. REPOSITORY: Sanchez Roig personal collection, as stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to Echinoidea. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:155877
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-03 20:22:21 Last modified:2014-05-03 20:22:21
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-03 20:22:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

51005. M. Sanchez-Roig. 1953. Nuevos Equinidos fosiles de la fauna Cubana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas Y Naturales de la Habana 41:136-176 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]