Where: Cuba (23.0° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphy. AGE: Other collections are assumed to be Early Miocene, based on correlations to Tampa Limeston (Arcadia Formation = Late Oligocene-Early Miocene). Cooke (1919) suggests that this collection may be slightly younger than others, although evidence is inconclusive (Malea camura is found in Middle Miocene-Early Pliocene strata elsewhere in Caribbean). Hence, tentatively assigned to a Middle Miocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within local section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wren; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: T. H. Wren. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington 105-156 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75313: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cassidea sulcifera" = Cassis sulcifera
"Cassidea sulcifera" = Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850 snail | |
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam |