Palmer Loc. 4707, Chucho Machin (Eocene of Cuba)

Where: Matanzas, Cuba (23.1° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 71.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• No stratigraphic information other than "Eocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• No information, but presumably limestone. Lithified based on description and illustration of fossil preservation.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187472: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Erymnariidae
Erymnaria cubensis n. sp. Cooper 1959