| Country: | Cuba |
State/province: | Sancti Spiritus |
| Coordinates: |
21.6° North, 79.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.0° North, 72.2° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
| Period: | Neogene |
Epoch: | Miocene |
|
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary |
*Epoch: | Early/Lower Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Early Miocene |
Zone: | Miogypsina-Soriitidae |
| Age range of interval: | 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields |
| Formation: | Lagunitas |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
| Stratigraphy comments: lagoonal facies are illustrated as occurring in several <= 1 m thick beds, mostly but not all in the bottom half of the section |
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation,paleosol/pedogenic,ferruginous,green,red sandy claystone |
| Lithology description: "predominantly light green clays, with brown and red spotting and minor amounts of sand... soil development... Bioturbation... root casts" |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Geology comments: "quiet water conditions... evanescent cut-off lagoons... no more than moderately saline" |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | microfossils |
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:full details on vertebrates are not given; see the general Domo de Zaza list |
| Database number: | 31190 |
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen |
Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey |
Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 31183 |
| Created: | 2003-04-22 14:50:20 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2003-04-22 14:50:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 8395. | | R. D. E. MacPhee, M. A. Iturralde-Vinent, and E. S. Gaffney. 2003. Domo de Zaza, an Early Miocene vertebrate locality in south-central Cuba, with notes on the tectonic evolution of Puerto Rico and the Mona Passage. American Museum Novitates 3394:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
| 77806 | | M. Iturralde-Vinent, C. L. Mora, R. Rojas and M. R. Gutiérrez. 1998. Myliobatidae (Elasmobranchii: Batomorphii) del Terciario de Cuba. Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontologia 8(2):135-145 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |