Grantham section, Rhythm B3, upper part, bed 9 (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Clarendon Parish, 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?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• Silty limestone.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. F. Mitchell. 2002. Palaeoecology of corals and rudists in mixed volcaniclastic carbonate small-scale rhythms (Upper Cretaceous, Jamaica). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 186:237-259 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163012: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 09.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata
"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral