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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Platidia sp. Costa 1852 | |