Where: Jamaica (18.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 76.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Somerset Formation (Yellow Limestone Group), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• The Somerset is equivalent in age to the Gibraltar FM, both of which occur in the upper part of the White Limestone Supergroup of Jamaica.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified limestone
Primary reference: S. K. Donovan. 1994. Echinoids of the Upper Eocene Somerset Formation of Jamaica. Tertiary Research 15(2):43-48 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8122: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 22.06.2000, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
cf. Durhamella cf. floridana sand dollar | |
Eurhodia matleyi sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Sawkinsia matleyi Cox 1941 cockle | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Mitra sp. Lamarck 1798 mitre shell | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Velates sp. Montfort 1810 snail |