Vinales Valley: Middle Oxfordian - Late Oxfordian, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001
MNHNCu-P 3209, a shell (holotype)
unclassified
de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001
Associated microfossil
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001
Associated microfossil
de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001
Associated microfossil
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba State/province:Vinales
Coordinates: 22.4° North, 83.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Middle Oxfordian - Late Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jagua
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination "shale"
Secondary lithology:concretionary lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Geology comments: Shallow water protected platform
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Caribemys oxfordiensis type locality
Database number:137759
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Modifier:J. Tennant Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-19 07:27:44 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-12-19 07:27:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
44221. Z. Gasparini and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2001. Metriorhynchid crcodiles (Crocodyliformes) from the Oxfordian of Western Cuba. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 9:534-542 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]

Secondary references:

44044 M. S. de la Fuente and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2001. A new pleurodiran turtle from the Jagua Formation (Oxfordian) of western Cuba. Journal of Paleontology 75(4):860-869 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]