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; fine-grained limestone
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 161368: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 04.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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