Where: Cuba (20.5° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.3° N, 70.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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 124701: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis
"Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Leptoria spenceri n. sp.
Leptoria spenceri n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Diploastrea crassolamellata Duncan 1863 stony coral |