Viñales: Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian, Cuba
collected 1942

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes sp. (Waagen 1869)
original and current combination Stephanoceras (Perisphinctes)
"various molds"
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
Iturralde-Vinent and Norell 1996
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchidae indet. Fitzinger 1843
Iturralde-Vinent and Norell 1996
MNHNH P3009 (small skull)
    = Metriorhynchidae informal indet. Cuba Fitzinger 1843
Sachs et al. 2019
Cricosaurus informal sp. Cuba Wagner 1858
Sachs et al. 2019
DATA FROM: Gasparini & Iturralde-Vinent (2001)
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
1 specimen
    = Somphospondyli indet. Wilson and Sereno 1998
Apesteguía et al. 2021
partial metacarpal (now lost); originally identified as ‘Diplodocus’ or ‘Brontosaurus’ humerus (De la Torre and Callejas 1942).
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
Iturralde-Vinent and Norell 1996
Femur (MNHNH P3065 [AT-175]), mandible (MNHNH P3066 [AT-654])
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Cryptoclidus caroli Torre and Rojas 1949
Gasparini et al. 2002
recombined as Vinialesaurus caroli
MNHNCu P3008 (rostrum)
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba State/province:Pinar del Río
Coordinates: 22.6° North, 83.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.6° North, 83.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.20000 - 155.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jagua Member:Jagua Vieja
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated minor elements:all
Fragmentation:extreme
Encrustation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1942
Metadata
Database number:45797
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Wagner, J. Tennant, P. Mannion
Modifier:J. Tennant Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-02 13:09:01 Last modified:2013-02-11 07:37:18
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-02 13:09:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12142.ETE A. de la Torre. 1949. Hallazgo de un hueso de dinosaurio terrestre en el Jurásico de Viñales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Universidad de La Habana 1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

69984 S. Apesteguía, Y. Ceballos Izquierdo, and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2021. New taxonomic assignment for a dinosaur sauropod bone from Cuba. Historical Biology 33(5):737-742 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
44828 Z. Gasparini, N. Bardet, and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2002. A new cryptoclidid plesiosaur from the Oxofrdian (Late Jurassic) of Cuba. Geobios 35:201-211 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
44921 M. Iturralde-Vinent and M. A. Norell. 1996. Synopsis of Late Jurassic marine reptiles from Cuba. American Museum Novitates 3164:1-17 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
71489 S. Sachs, M. M. Johnson, M. T. Young and P. Abel. 2019. The mystery of Mystriosaurus: Redescribing the poorly known Early Jurassic teleosauroid thalattosuchians Mystriosaurus laurillardi and Steneosaurus brevior. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(3):565-579 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/G. Varnham]