Where: Cuba (20.9° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 62.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• The nautiloids were found in a loose limestone slab in an area of complex geology. Because rocks exactly matching the matrix of the nautiloid specimens were not yet found in situ, the only way to determine the age independently was by microfossils. I. Bodrogi of the Hungarian Geological Survey identified, in thin-sections, an assemblage of calcareous algae (incl. Lithophyllum sp. and Lithothamnium sp.) and benthonic foraminifers (e. g. Spirillina sp., Triloculina sp.), associated with a rich planktonic foraminifera fauna with Globigerina cf. triloculinoides Plummer, suggesting a Paleocene age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Boros in 1985

• Repository: Paleontological Collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest

Primary reference: A. Galácz. 1988. First record of Paleocene nautiloids from Cuba. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 62:265-269 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179959: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2016, edited by Keenan Hassell

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