Loma Yucatan, Camagüey: Santonian, Cuba
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Durania lopeztrigoi
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Torre 1960 | |||||||||
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Durania curasavica
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Torre 1960 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Hippuritidae
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Torreites tschoppi
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Torre 1960 | |||||||||
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Vaccinites inaequicostatus
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Torre 1960 | |||||||||
| subsp. macgillavryi | ||||||||||
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Praebarrettia corrali
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Torre 1960 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Plagioptychidae
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Plagioptychus sp.
Matheron 1842
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? Mitrocaprina sp.
Boehm 1895
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Torre 1960 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Cuba |
| Coordinates: | 21.5° North, 77.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.5° North, 57.1° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Piragua |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: thick limestone unit embedded in tuffs and tuffites of the Piragua Formation | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 73280 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-06-08 01:41:35 | Last modified: | 2010-11-29 07:15:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-08 01:41:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34355. | R. Rojas, M. Iturralde-Vinent, and P. W. Skelton. 1995. Stratigraphy, composition and age of Cuban rudist-bearing deposits. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 12(2):272-291 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 24603 | 1% 19820 | 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] |