USNM Loc. No. 818e, Saratoga (Eocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.9° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 71.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. J. Bermudez; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1979. Tertiary and Cretaceous Brachiopods from Cuba and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 37:1-45 [A. Hendy/K. Hendy/K. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166251: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Platidiidae
Platidia sp. Costa 1852
 Thecideida - Thecidellinidae