Consuelo FM., Cuba (Eocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (21.4° N, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 71.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Consuelo Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• This formation is correlated with the Chapapote FM. of Mexico and the Jackson FM., of the U.S.

Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow, calcareous marl

• soft, cream colored calcereous marls

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. M. Cutress. 1980. Cretaceous and Tertiary Cidaroida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of the Caribbean Area. Bulletins of American Paleontology 77(309):1-221 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8208: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 29.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

• echinoids only
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris cubensis Lambert 1925 pencil urchin
 Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Histocidaris sanchezi pencil urchin