Yumuri River, station 3461: Early Miocene, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing and Michelotti 1860)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba State/province:Matanzas County:Matanzas
Coordinates: 23.1° North, 81.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.6° North, 80.6° 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: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "lower Miocene (Bowden age)" (Vaughan, 1919) refers to the Miocene Bowden Marl
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:71135
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:L. Jones Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-04-19 05:23:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-19 05:23:42
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]