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; rudstone and mudstone
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 163059: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Chiapasella radiolitiformis Trechmann 1924 rudist
Bournonia thiadensi rudist
Thyrastylon spp. Chubb 1956 rudist | |
Titanosarcolites giganteus rudist |