Ciego de Ávila (Cretaceous of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (21.8° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.5° N, 57.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Cretaceous, for which justification is not reported. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Collection of Sanchez Roig (unknown repository).

Primary reference: M. Sanchez Roig. 1926. Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba. Contribucion a la paleontologia Cubana 1-179 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91131: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for echinoidermata. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with a ntiquated nomenclature, but updated with more recent publications; with species-resolution identifications.
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isselicrinidae
Austinocrinus cubensis n. sp. Valette 1926 Sea lily
Echinoidea
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia ameri n. sp. Lambert 1925 sea urchin
 Cassiduloida -
"Cossmannaster hemisphaericus" = Clarkiella hemispherica
"Cossmannaster hemisphaericus" = Clarkiella hemispherica Slocum 1909 sea urchin
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Catopygus rodriguezi n. sp. Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926 sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
Lanieria lanieri Cotteau 1881 sea urchin