Rio Minho, Section 2, Unit B3, Bed B3c (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Clarendon, Jamaica (18.2° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 71.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guinea Corn Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper Campanian? to Maastrichtian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; nodular siltstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. F. Mitchell. 1999. Stratigraphy of the Guinea Corn Formation (Upper Cretaceous) at its type locality in the Rio Minho between Grantham and Guinea Corn, northern Clarendon, Jamaica. The Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica 33:1-12 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161333: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 04.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata
"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta, Vaughanoseris catadupensis
"Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral
Vaughanoseris catadupensis Wells 1934 stony coral