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