ammonites
Loma Calixto, Camagüey (Eocene of Cuba)

Where: Cuba (21.5° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 70.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• approx. equivalent to St. Bartholomew Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• "fairly shallow water but not true reef-building conditions"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1934. Eocene corals from Cuba. Bulletins of American Paleontology 20(70B):147-160 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77046: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2007