USNM 3474 (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.5° N, 83.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 79.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphy. AGE: Assumed to be Early Miocene, based on correlations to Tampa Limeston (Arcadia Formation = Late Oligocene-Early Miocene). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within local section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not described in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, assumed to be siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlifithied, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: The Alcalde. 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 75315: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Includes gastropoda and bivalvia.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullina anguillana n. sp. Cooke 1919 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Thersiteidae
Orthaulax inornatus Gabb 1872 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry