NE Clarendon Parish (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.1° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peters Hill Limestone Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. J. Chubb. 1971. Rudists of Jamaica. Palaeontographica Americana 7(45):161-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100239: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae