Also known as Zaza Dome; Canal de Zaza

Where: Sancti Spiritus, Cuba (21.6° N, 79.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 24.0° N, 72.2° W (Wright 2013)

• 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 in situ fossils are from the lower half of the section

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; gray, green, yellow, sandy, calcareous conglomerate and bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic, ferruginous, green, red, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• screen washing was attempted but yielded no reported taxa

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31183: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.04.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

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