Where: Cuba (21.8° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.5° N, 57.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Cretaceous, for which justification is not reported. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Collection of Sanchez Roig (unknown repository).
Primary reference: M. Sanchez Roig. 1926. Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba. Contribucion a la paleontologia Cubana 1-179 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91131: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Salenia ameri n. sp.
Salenia ameri n. sp. Lambert 1925 sea urchin | |
"Cossmannaster hemisphaericus" = Clarkiella hemispherica
"Cossmannaster hemisphaericus" = Clarkiella hemispherica Slocum 1909 sea urchin | |
Catopygus rodriguezi n. sp.
Catopygus rodriguezi n. sp. Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926 sea urchin | |
Lanieria lanieri Cotteau 1881 sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Austinocrinus cubensis n. sp.
Austinocrinus cubensis n. sp. Valette 1926 Sea lily |