Mogote Jagua Vieja : Middle Oxfordian - Late Oxfordian, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria indet. (de Blainville 1835)
Ceballos-Izquierdo et al. 2023 1 specimen
IGP-v-2010, semi-articulated phalanges
Reptilia - Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
1 individual
IGO-V 208, Incomplete but three dimensional, uncrushed skull, without mandibles, distal end of the left ulna, fragments of the left radius, left phalanx 1 of the wingfinger, and phalanx 4 of the wingfinger
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba State/province:Pinar del Rio
Coordinates: 22.7° North, 83.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Middle Oxfordian - Late Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jagua Member:Jagua Vieja
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: IGO-V: Museo Mario Sanchez Roig, Instituto de Geologia y Paleontologia, La Habana, Cuba
Metadata
Also known as:Cacibupteryx holotype site
Database number:90872
Authorizer:R. Butler, E. Vlachos Enterer:R. Butler, F. Aspromonte
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-08-21 05:59:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-08-21 05:59:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

30567. Z. Gasparini, M. Fernandez, and M. Fuente. 2004. A new pterosaur from the Jurassic of Cuba. Palaeontology 47:919-927 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

88229 Y. Ceballos-Izquierdo, M. A. Iturralde-Vinent, and J. Orihuela. 2023. Plesiosaur flipper and phalanges from the Oxfordian of Cuba. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 121(104114):1-5 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]