Santiago, station 3445: Middle Miocene, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea hyades (Dana 1846)
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites (Pallas 1766)
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Waller 2011
Waller 2011
Waller 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 20.0° North, 75.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.4° North, 74.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
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:La Cruz
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: According to Simons and Strachey (1958) - La Cruz formation occupies most of the Santiago lowlands. It was originally described by Hayes, Vaughan, and Spencer (1901, p. 23) and later was named and described in greater detail by Vaughan (1918, p. 276). The formation consists of a few tens of meters of calcareous, tuffaceous sandstone and poorly sorted shale, conglomerate, and highly fossiliferous conglomeratic limestone. The nearly flat lying La Cruz strata unconformably overlie highly folded Cobre pyroclastic rocks in the Santiago basin; farther east toward Siboney it overlies the Vinent formation and dioritic rocks. Grains, pebbles, and cobbles of tuff, lavas, fine-grained intrusive rocks, and fine-grained, dense limestone, all apparently derived from the fringing Cobre formation, are conspicuous in the coarse La Cruz elastic rocks. La Cruz formation has been assigned a middle Miocene age by various workers (Vaughan, 1919, p. 218-219 and 1922, p. 115-116; Cooke, 1921, p.137; Woodring, 1928, p. Gl; Keijzer, 1945, p. 116-118; and Bermudez, 1950, p. 295).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:71132
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy
Modifier:L. Jones Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-04-19 04:23:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-19 04:23:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
12754. T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

37262 T. R. Waller. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology (381)1-198 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]