Jabaco FM., Cuba: Priabonian, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Psychocidaridae
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Echinoidea - Cidaroida
Palmerius roberti n. gen., n. sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba State/province:Pinar del Rio
Coordinates: 22.3° North, 79.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.8° North, 66.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
*Period:Middle Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Priabonian - Early/Lower Priabonian
Key time interval: Priabonian
Age range of interval: 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jabaco
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: One member of this formation, the Jicotea member is correlated with the Avon Park FM. of Florida.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow calcareous marl
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: yellowish, calcereous marls with abundant calcereous sand. in places, comapcted into marly limestone.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:echinoids only
Metadata
Database number:8209
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:E. Kowalski
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-29 08:42:41 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
559. B. M. Cutress. 1980. Cretaceous and Tertiary Cidaroida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of the Caribbean Area. Bulletins of American Paleontology 77(309):1-221 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]