Catálogo de Especímenes de Vertebrados del Jurásico Tardío (pieces, reptiles) de Cuba Occidental

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/igl.05437652e.2015.4.1.288
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Late Jurassic, Oxfordian, dinosaur, marine reptiles, fish, western Cuba

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Manuel Iturralde-Vinent
Retired curator, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Havana, Cuba
Yasmani Ceballos izquierdo
40 Street, #2702, e/27 and 29, Madruga, Mayabeque, Cuba

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Vertebrate remains are relatively well known in Late Jurassic deposits of western Cuba. The fossil specimens that have been collected so far are dispersed in museum collections around the world and some have been lost throughout the years. A reassessment of the fossil material stored in some of these museums’ collections has generated new data about the fossil-bearing localities and greatly increased the number of formally identified specimens. The identified bone elements and taxa suggest a high vertebrate diversity dominated by actinopterygians and reptiles, including: long-necked plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, metriorhynchid crocodilians, pleurodiran turtles, ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, and sauropod dinosaurs. This assemblage is commonly associated with unidentified remains of terrestrial plants and rare microorganisms, as well as numerous marine invertebrates such as ammonites, belemnites, pelecypods, brachiopods, and ostracods. This fossil assemblage is particularly valuable because it includes the most complete marine reptile record of a chronostratigraphic interval, which is poor in vertebrate remains elsewhere. In this contribution, the current status of the available vertebrate fossil specimens from the Late Jurassic of western Cuba is provided, along with a brief description of the fossil materials.

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Iturralde-Vinent, M., & Ceballos izquierdo, Y. (2015). Catálogo de Especímenes de Vertebrados del Jurásico Tardío (pieces, reptiles) de Cuba Occidental. Paleontología Mexicana, 4(1), 25–40. https://doi.org/10.22201/igl.05437652e.2015.4.1.288
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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015): Paleontología Mexicana
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