Where: Jamaica (18.0° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 76.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Guys Hill Member (Chapelton Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• "early middle Eocene"
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone and lignite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: A. Graham. 1993. Contribution toward a Tertiary palynostratigraphy for Jamaica: The status of Tertiary paleobotanical studies in northern Latin America and preliminary analysis of the Guys Hill Member (Chapelton Formation, middle Eocene) of Jamaica. in Wright, R. M., and Rbinson, E. eds., Biostratigraphy of Jamaica: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 182 182:443-461 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32238: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 16.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Dicotyledoneae | |
Corsinipollenites sp. Nakoman 1965 willowherb | |
Angiospermae | |
Mauritiidites sp. van Hoeken-Klinkenberg 1964 palm | |
Cupanieidites sp. Cookson and Pike 1954 soapberry | |
Bombacacidites sp. Couper 1960 | |
Retimonocolpites sp. Pierce 1961 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Psilatricolporites crassus Van der Hammen and Wymstra 1964 | |
Pteridopsida | |