Vinales Valley (Jurassic to of Cuba)

Also known as Caribemys oxfordiensis type locality

Where: Vinales, Cuba (22.4° N, 83.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 83.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jagua Formation, Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; shale and concretionary lime mudstone

• Shallow water protected platform

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Gasparini and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2001. Metriorhynchid crcodiles (Crocodyliformes) from the Oxfordian of Western Cuba. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 9:534-542 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137759: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Platychelyidae
"Caribemys oxfordiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Notoemys oxfordiensis
"Caribemys oxfordiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Notoemys oxfordiensis de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001 turtle
MNHNCu-P 3209, a shell (holotype)