Viñales: Middle Oxfordian - Late Oxfordian, Cuba
collected 1942
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonoida
- Perisphinctidae
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| "various molds" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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| Iturralde-Vinent and Norell 1996 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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Iturralde-Vinent and Norell 1996 | |||||||||
| Femur (MNHNH P3065 [AT-175]), mandible (MNHNH P3066 [AT-654]) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Cryptoclididae
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Cryptoclidus caroli
Torre and Rojas 1949
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Gasparini et al. 2002 | |||||||||
| MNHNCu P3008 (rostrum) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| Apesteguía et al. 2021 | ||||||||||
| partial metacarpal (now lost); originally identified as ‘Diplodocus’ or ‘Brontosaurus’ humerus (De la Torre and Callejas 1942). | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Metriorhynchidae
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Metriorhynchidae indet.
Fitzinger 1843
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Iturralde-Vinent and Norell 1996 | |||||||||
| MNHNH P3009 (small skull) | ||||||||||
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= Metriorhynchidae informal indet. Cuba
Fitzinger 1843
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Sachs et al. 2019 | |||||||||
| Sachs et al. 2019 | ||||||||||
| DATA FROM: Gasparini & Iturralde-Vinent (2001) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Cuba | State/province: | Pinar del Río |
| Coordinates: | 22.6° North, 83.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | black "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
| Encrustation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1942 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45797 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Wagner, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion, P. Wagner, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-12-02 13:09:01 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-12-02 13:09:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12142. | ETE | A. de la Torre. 1949. Hallazgo de un hueso de dinosaurio terrestre en el Jurásico de Viñales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Universidad de La Habana 1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 69984 | S. Apesteguía, Y. Ceballos Izquierdo, and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2021. New taxonomic assignment for a dinosaur sauropod bone from Cuba. Historical Biology 33(5):737-742 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 44828 | Z. Gasparini, N. Bardet, and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2002. A new cryptoclidid plesiosaur from the Oxofrdian (Late Jurassic) of Cuba. Geobios 35:201-211 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 44921 | M. Iturralde-Vinent and M. A. Norell. 1996. Synopsis of Late Jurassic marine reptiles from Cuba. American Museum Novitates 3164:1-17 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 71489 | S. Sachs, M. M. Johnson, M. T. Young and P. Abel. 2019. The mystery of Mystriosaurus: Redescribing the poorly known Early Jurassic teleosauroid thalattosuchians Mystriosaurus laurillardi and Steneosaurus brevior. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(3):565-579 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/G. Varnham] |