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 163013: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 09.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Actinacis indet. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Vaughanoseris catadupensis, "Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta
Vaughanoseris catadupensis Wells 1934 stony coral
"Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni Wells 1934 stony coral | |
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"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata
"Leptoria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Titanosarcolites cf. alatus rudist | |
Thyrastylon spp. Chubb 1956 rudist
Biradiolites jamaicensis rudist |