New fossil species of Cerion Röding, 1798 (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Cerionidae) from Eastern Cuba
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Cerion petreus sp. nov. is described on fossil state, with type locality at El Guanal, Punta de Maisí, Guantánamo province. This finding allows us to report the occurrence of this genus in Eastern Cuba since Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene.
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Mollusca, Pulmonata, Cerionidae, Cerion petreus sp. nov., Punta de Maisí, Cuba
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Roth, B. and J. H. Hartman. 1998. A probable Cerion (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from the uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana. Paleobios, 18 (2–3): 16–20.
Salvador, R. B., B. Rowson, and L. R. L. Simone. 2011. Rewriting the fossil history of Cerionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): new family assignment of the Brazilian Paleocene genus Brasilennea Maury, 1935. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77: 445–447.
Salvador, R. B. y L. R. L. de Simone. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata Cerionidae Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 141: 43–50.
Torre, A. de la y E. Kojumdgieva. 1985. Asociaciones y niveles faunales de moluscos del Plioceno-Cuaternario del occidente de Cuba, y sus implicaciones estratigráficas. Reporte de Investigación del Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, 5.
Jaume, M. L. 1975. Catálogo de los moluscos terrestres cubanos del género Cerion (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Ceriidae) (con una bibliografía general). Catalogo de la fauna cubana, 37: 1-47.
Harasewych, M. G. (Ed.). 2009. Cerion v 1.02. Cerion, a web based resource for Cerion research and identification. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. http:// invertebrates.si.edu/Cerion/.
Harasewych, M. G. 2012. The fossil record and phylogeography of the family Cerionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), with the description of a new species from the Pleistocene of Florida. The Nautilus, 126 (4): 119–126.
Hearty, P. J., Kaufman, D. S. 2009. A Cerion-based chronostratigraphy and age model from the central Bahama Islands: Amino acid racemization and 14C in land snails and sediments. Quaternary Geochronology, 4: 148–159.
Iturralde-Vinent, M. A. (Ed.). 2011. Compendio de Geología de Cuba y del Caribe. Primera Edición. DVD-ROM. Editorial CITMATEL, la Habana, Cuba.
Petuch, E. J. 2004. Cenozoic Seas, the View from Eastern North America. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 308 pp.
Roth, B. and J. H. Hartman. 1998. A probable Cerion (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from the uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana. Paleobios, 18 (2–3): 16–20.
Salvador, R. B., B. Rowson, and L. R. L. Simone. 2011. Rewriting the fossil history of Cerionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): new family assignment of the Brazilian Paleocene genus Brasilennea Maury, 1935. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77: 445–447.
Salvador, R. B. y L. R. L. de Simone. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata Cerionidae Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 141: 43–50.
Torre, A. de la y E. Kojumdgieva. 1985. Asociaciones y niveles faunales de moluscos del Plioceno-Cuaternario del occidente de Cuba, y sus implicaciones estratigráficas. Reporte de Investigación del Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, 5.
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Suárez Torres, A. (2015). New fossil species of Cerion Röding, 1798 (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Cerionidae) from Eastern Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (8), 120–127. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i8.50
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