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Tertiary and Cretaceous brachiopods from Cuba and the Caribbean

by: Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000

Publication date: 1979

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Topics: Brachiopoda, Fossil, Paleontology, Paleontology -- Tertiary, Paleontology -- Cretaceous, Paleontology -- Cuba, Paleontology -- Caribbean area

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Rights: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions

Rights-holder: Smithsonian Institution

Volume: no.37 (1979)

iv, 45 p. : 26 cm

Thirty-nine taxa of fossil brachiopods are described, figured, and discussed. Three come from Cretaceous rocks of Cuba and the remainder were found in Tertiary sediments of Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean region. These range in age from Eocene to Pliocene. Fourteen genera are identified of which two are new: one from the Cretaceous and the other from the Eocene, both from Cuba.Thirty species are recognized among the fossil genera: Cruralina, 1 (new); Terebratulina, 1 (new); Tichosina, 2 new; Tichosina?, 3 (1 new); Stenosarina, 1 (new); Gryphus, 4 (2 new); Gryphus?, 1; Dyscritothyris, 1 (new genus and species); Argyrotheca, 12 (11 new); Cistellarcula, 1 (new); Hercothyris, 2 (new genus and 2 new species); Lacazella, 1. Representatives of the following genera are not identified specifically: Cryptopora, Rugia, Terebratulina, Platidia, Argyrotheca, Thecidellina

Bibliography: p. 29-30

Abstract: Thirty-nine taxa of fossil brachiopods are described, figured, and discussed. Three come from Cretaceous rocks of Cuba and the remainder were found in Tertiary sediments of Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean region. These range in age from Eocene to Pliocene. Fourteen genera are identified of which two are new: one from the Cretaceous and the other from the Eocene, both from Cuba.Thirty species are recognized among the fossil genera: Cruralina, 1 (new); Terebratulina, 1 (new); Tichosina, 2 new; Tichosina?, 3 (1 new); Stenosarina, 1 (new); Gryphus, 4 (2 new); Gryphus?, 1; Dyscritothyris, 1 (new genus and species); Argyrotheca, 12 (11 new); Cistellarcula, 1 (new); Hercothyris, 2 (new genus and 2 new species); Lacazella, 1. Representatives of the following genera are not identified specifically: Cryptopora, Rugia, Terebratulina, Platidia, Argyrotheca, Thecidellina.