Jabaco FM., Cuba (Eocene of Cuba)

Where: Pinar del Rio, Cuba (22.3° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jabaco Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• One member of this formation, the Jicotea member is correlated with the Avon Park FM. of Florida.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow, calcareous marl and sandstone

• yellowish, calcereous marls with abundant calcereous sand. in places, comapcted into marly limestone.

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. M. Cutress. 1980. Cretaceous and Tertiary Cidaroida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of the Caribbean Area. Bulletins of American Paleontology 77(309):1-221 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8209: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 29.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• echinoids only
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida -
Prophyllacanthus eocenicus n. sp. pencil urchin
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Prionocidaris loveni pencil urchin
 Cidaroida - Psychocidaridae
Tylocidaris bermudez n. sp. pencil urchin
 Cidaroida -
Palmerius roberti n. gen. n. sp.
Palmerius roberti n. gen. n. sp. pencil urchin