Loma Yucatan, Camagüey: Santonian, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Torre 1960
Torre 1960
Torre 1960
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842
Torre 1960
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Torre 1960
Torre 1960
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 21.5° North, 77.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.7° North, 51.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Santonian
Age range of interval: 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Piragua
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: thick limestone unit embedded in tuffs and tuffites of the Piragua Formation
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:73280
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-08 01:41:35 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-08 01:41:35
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
34355. R. Rojas, M. Iturralde-Vinent, and P. W. Skelton. 1995. Stratigraphy, composition and age of Cuban rudist-bearing deposits. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 12(2):272-291 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

246031% 19820A. Torre. 1960. Notas sobre rudistas [Notes about rudists]. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural 25(1):51-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]