Where: Sancti Spiritus, Cuba (21.6° N, 79.5° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 75.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Miogypsina-Soriitidae zone, Lagunitas Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• most material is from "on top of the Calcarenite Bed" but also "as isolated lenses"; these are illustrated both above and below the Calcarenite Bed but never far from it
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. D. E. MacPhee, M. A. Iturralde-Vinent, and E. S. Gaffney. 2003. Domo de Zaza, an Early Miocene vertebrate locality in south-central Cuba, with notes on the tectonic evolution of Puerto Rico and the Mona Passage. American Museum Novitates 3394:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31189: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.04.2003, edited by Carrie Schweitzer
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Portunus sp. Weber 1795 swimming crab |