Vertebrate paleofauna

Based on Iturralde-Vinent & Izquierdo (2015):^[4]

Bony fishes

Bony fish of the Jagua Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Description	Notes	Image
Aspidorhynchus	A. arawaki		Jagua Vieja Mb.	A aspidorhynchid fish	[4]
Caturus	C. deani	Valle los Jazmines, Jagua Vieja	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A caturid halecomorph. In need of taxonomic revision.	[4]
Eugnathides	E. browni	Mogote La Mina	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A pachycormiform fish. In need of taxonomic revision.	[4]
Gyrodus	G. macropthalmus cubensis	Mogote La Mina	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A pycnodont.	[4]
Hypsocormus	H. leedsi	Laguna de Piedra	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A pachycormiform fish. In need of taxonomic revision.	[4]
Lepidotes	L. gloriae	Jagua Vieja	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A lepidotid lepisosteiform.	[4]
?Leptolepis	L. euspondylus	Mogote La Mina	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A leptolepid fish. In need of taxonomic revision.	[4]
Luisichthys	L. vinalesensis	Jagua Vieja	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A varasichthyid fish	[4]
Pholidophorus	P. sp.			A pholidophorid fish	[4]
Sauropsis	S. woodwardi	Viñales		A pachycormiform fish. In need of taxonomic revision.	[4]

Reptiles

Dinosaurs

Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Description	Notes	Image
Somphospondyli indet.		Jagua Vieja	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A somphospondylan sauropod, the only dinosaur known from the formation. Previously identified as a camarasaurid. If it is a somphospondylan, it is the only record of this group from the early Late Jurassic of the Americas. Material consists of a first or second metacarpal, now lost.[5]	[4][5]

Pterosaurs

Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Description	Notes	Image
Cacibupteryx	C. caribensis	Mogote Jagua Vieja	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A rhamphorhynchid pterosaur	[6]
Nesodactylus	N. hesperius	Hoyo del Palmar 10 km (6.2 mi) northeast of Viñales	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A rhamphorhynchid pterosaur	[6]

Crocodylomorphs

Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Description	Notes	Image
Cricosaurus	C. suevicus	Puerta de Ancón Sierra de Guasasa	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A metriorhynchid thalattosuchian	[4][7]
Geosaurus	G. sp.			A geosaurine metriorhynchid
Thalattosuchia indet.		Hoyo de la Sierra		A thalattosuchian of uncertain affinities.

Plesiosaurs

Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Description	Notes	Image
?"Cryptocleidus"	"C." vignalensis	Laguna de Piedra	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A sauropterygian, nomen dubium.	[4][8]
Gallardosaurus	G. iturraldei	Sierra de Caiguanabo ~8 km (5.0 mi) east of Viñales	Jagua Vieja Mb.	A pliosaurid plesiosaur	[9]
Vinialesaurus	V. caroli	Viñales		A cryptoclidid plesiosaur	[10]

Ichthyosaurs

Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Description	Notes	Image
Ichthyosauria indet.		Laguna de Piedra	Jagua Vieja Mb.	An indeterminate ichthyosaur, initially described as "Ichthyosaurus torrey"	[4]
Ophthalmosauridae Indet.	Indeterminate	Viñales			[11]

Turtles

Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Description	Notes	Image
Notoemys	N. oxfordensis	Valle de Viñales		A platychelyid pan-pleurodiran turtle, originally described under the separate genus of Caribemys

Other fossils

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