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
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Bivalvia | |
Torreites cf. sanchezi rudist
Praebarrettia coatesi rudist |