USGS 3451 Cienaga (Miocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124676: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea cf. hyades Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Orbicella imperatoris" = Montastrea imperatoris
"Orbicella imperatoris" = Montastrea imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral