Hoyo de Mamey pebbles, Sierra del Rosario (Permian of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.8° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° N, 83.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Pebbles in upper part of the Jurassic San Cayetano Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, blue, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Silicified bluish-gray limestone. One pebble is silicified fusulinid-bearing limestone. Two other pebbles are silicified bioclastic limestones with bryozoan and foram fragments.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Repository: presumably Geological Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences

Primary reference: A. Pszczólkowski. 1989. Late Paleozoic fossils from pebbles in the San Cayetano Formation, Sierra del Rosario, Cuba. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 59:27-40 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52159: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 28.07.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Schwagerina sp. Moeller 1877
Parafusulina sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1931
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae