Where: Cuba (23.0° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 78.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Palmer, P.J. Bermudez; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1979. Tertiary and Cretaceous Brachiopods from Cuba and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 37:1-45 [A. Hendy/K. Hendy/K. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164933: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
? Terebratulina palmeri Cooper 1979 | |
Argyrotheca sp. Dall 1900
Argyrotheca plana n. sp. Cooper 1979
Argyrotheca bermudezi n. sp. Cooper 1979 | |
Lacazella caribbeanensis Cooper 1977 |