Arroyo Cabrillas: Late Jurassic, Cuba
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Reptilia
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonoidea
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Geography
| Country: | Cuba | State/province: | Pinar del Rio |
| Coordinates: | 22.0° North, 84.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 200 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Jurassic | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.5 - 143.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Jagua |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,black "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Jagua Formation is composed of limestone and calcarenites, and well-stratified bituminites at the base. Fossils are in dark limestone nodules close to outcrop of similar rock withing the middle part, composed of terrigenous sediments intercalated with thin limestone layers. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
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: | 37536 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Wertheim |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-03-16 12:06:35 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-03-16 12:06:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10043. | 5% 26600 | R. Gutierrez Domech. 1981. Hallazgo de restos de reptil en rocas Jurasicas en Punta de la Sierra, Provincia de Pinar del Rio. Voluntad Hidraulica 18(56):4-11 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy] |