The ammonites (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) reported in the Cuban fossil record

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Ammonites Cuba Phylloceratina Lytoceratina Ammonitina Ancyloceratina

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Anabel Oliva Martín
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología
Yaima Dominguez Samalea
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología
Iliana L. Delgado Carballo
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología
M. Roberto Gutiérrez Domech
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología

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One of the most importan groups of the fossil record worldwide are the ammonites. For an adequate work with the reported species for Cuba, and aiming for the consultation or interchange of the data with national and foreign specialists, an actualization of these reports, specialy their taxonomy and systematic organization, is required. This study presents the complete and actualized list of ammonoid species reported for Cuba, belonging to the four youngest suborders of the order Ammonoidea. To achieve this, the existent bibliography about taxonomy and synonyms of each species was reviewed, the extant data were actualized according to the current changes, and lists of carrier locations were elaborated. Resulting from the analysis of the obtained data, a total of 280 species, included in 4 suborders, 13 superfamilies, 38 families, 53 subfamilies, 157 genera and 40 subgenera, were reported. Their age ranks from Upper Jurassic (Lower Oxfordian) to Upper Cretaceous (Upper Maastrichtian). They are considered index fossils for 19 lithostratigraphic units of the country. It is the most representative macrofossil group for the Jurassic of Cuba, and very important for the study of the paleontology of the Cretaceous period, and the use of its species as biozonal markers is favoured.

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Oliva Martín, A., Dominguez Samalea, Y., Delgado Carballo, I. L. and Gutiérrez Domech, M. R. (2022) “The ammonites (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) reported in the Cuban fossil record”, INFOMIN, 13. Available at: https://infomin.edicionescervantes.com/index.php/i/article/view/166 (Accessed: 21 August 2026).
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