Section A in Hacienda El Americano, Sierra de los Organos, western Cuba - VI: Late Berriasian - Early Valanginian, Cuba
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Protozoa
- Calpionellida
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unclassified
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Geography
| Country: | Cuba |
| Coordinates: | 22.7° North, 83.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.0° North, 43.2° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian - Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late Berriasian - Early Valanginian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.1 - 132.6 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified lime mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified chert |
| Lithology description: 40 m. Dark micritic limestone with thin-bedded chert. | |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
| Geology comments: During the Early Cretaceous the environment of the Sierra de los Organos was one of deeper waters. | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 57716 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate,micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2005-12-20 03:15:48 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-12-20 03:15:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15500. | R. Myczynski. 1989. Ammonite biostratigraphy of the Tithonian of Western Cuba. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 59:43-125 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg] |