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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bournonia cancellata rudist | |
Anthozoa | |
"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata
"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral |