Viñales (Jurassic to of Cuba)

Where: Pinar del Río, Cuba (22.6° N, 83.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° N, 83.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jagua Vieja Member (Jagua Formation), Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 1942

Primary reference: A. de la Torre. 1949. Hallazgo de un hueso de dinosaurio terrestre en el Jurásico de Viñales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Universidad de La Habana 1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45797: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.12.2004, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Pete Wagner and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet.3 Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Saurischia -
Somphospondyli indet.1 Wilson and Sereno 1998 sauropod
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchidae "indet. Cuba"4 Fitzinger 1843 marine crocodile
MNHNH P3009 (small skull)
Cricosaurus "sp. Cuba"4 Wagner 1858 marine crocodile
DATA FROM: Gasparini & Iturralde-Vinent (2001)
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.3 de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
Femur (MNHNH P3065 [AT-175]), mandible (MNHNH P3066 [AT-654])
 Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
"Cryptoclidus caroli" = Vinialesaurus caroli2
"Cryptoclidus caroli" = Vinialesaurus caroli2 Torre and Rojas 1949 plesiosaur
MNHNCu P3008 (rostrum)
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes sp. Waagen 1869 ammonite
"various molds"