USNM Loc. No. 818g, Rio Canimar (Pliocene of Cuba)
Where: Cuba (23.0° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 80.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. J. Borro; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1979. Tertiary and Cretaceous Brachiopods from Cuba and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 37:1-45 [A. Hendy/K. Hendy/K. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166252: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata | |
Platidia sp. Costa 1852 | |
Argyrotheca inconstans n. sp.
Argyrotheca inconstans n. sp. Cooper 1979 |