Casimba en Los Buentes, Sagua La Grande, Mal Páez (Pleistocene to of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (22.8° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Although there are no direct radiometric dates for this site, the nature of the associated fauna and degree of mineralization are similar to deposits elsewhere in Cuba assigned to the Quaternary that range from late Pleistocene to middle Holocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; siliciclastic sediments

• Depositional environment was a casimba, a small water-filled sinkhole with a clay bottom in which fossils accumulated

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: S. L. Olson and W. Suárez. 2008. A fossil cranium of the Cuban macaw Ara tricolor (Aves: Psittacidae) from Villa Clara Province, Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 44:287-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194488: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson 1834 bare-throated tiger-heron
 Psittaciformes - Psittacidae
Ara tricolor Bechstein 1811 Cuban macaw