Domo de Zaza, Kuba


Fundort: Domo de Zaza, Kuba, Sancti Spiritus, Kuba
Taxon: Paralouatta marianae aus der Familie Pitheciidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, Most in situ fossils are from the lower half of the section, "poorly sorted, angular to subangular gravel, moderately cemented by carbonates and low in clay content... Grey to yellowish-green interbedded sands and gravels"; "light green clays, with brown and red spotting and minor amounts of sand... soil development... Bioturbation... root casts"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 15,97 und 23,03 Millionen Jahre aus der Lagunitas Formation in Kuba
Geologie, Sratigraphie Aquitanian, Burdigalian / Early Miocene / Lagunitas
Koordinaten: 21° 37 ' 15 '' N, 79° 31 ' 50 '' W

Literatur

R. D. E. MacPhee, M. A. Iturralde-Vinent, E. S. Gaffney 2003, Domo de Zaza, an Early Miocene vertebrate locality in south-central Cuba, with notes on the tectonic evolution of Puerto Rico and the Mona Passage. American Museum Novitates. 3394, p. 1 - 42

Systematik

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