Baitiquiri: Middle Miocene, Cuba
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
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Geography
| Country: | Cuba |
| Coordinates: | 20.0° North, 74.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.6° North, 69.9° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Imias | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The microfossils in the marls and limestones, identified by Sánchez-Arango (1975), include ostracods and foraminifera of middle Miocene age. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gypsiferous packstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: marls and limestones with some layers of gypsum | |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: MNHNCu-P (National Museum of Natural History, paleontological collection, Havana, Cuba) is the repository | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 65599 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Schweitzer | Enterer: | C. Schweitzer |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | decapod |
| Created: | 2006-09-22 13:48:37 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-22 13:48:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18843. | decapod | C. E. Schweitzer, M. Iturralde-Vinent, J. L. Hetler and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2006. Oligocene and Miocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from the Caribbean. Annals of Carnegie Museum 75(2):111-136 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen] |