Where: Pinar del Rio, Cuba (22.6° N, 83.6° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° N, 83.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jagua Vieja Member (Jagua Formation), Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Jagua Formation, Jagua Vieja Member, middle–late Oxfordian, Late Jurassic
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: MNHNCu P3005 was discovered by the farmer Juan Gallardo in 1946
Primary reference: Z. Gasparini. 2009. A new Oxfordian pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) in the Caribbean Seaway. Palaeontology 52(3):661-669 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90435: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Gallardosaurus iturraldei n. gen. n. sp.
Gallardosaurus iturraldei n. gen. n. sp. Gasparini 2009 plesiosaur |