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; shelly/skeletal rudstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 163079: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
"Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta, Vaughanoseris catadupensis
"Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral
Vaughanoseris catadupensis Wells 1934 stony coral | |
Calamophyllia quaylei stony coral
Gyrodendron sp. Quenstedt 1880 stony coral | |
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"Synastrea adkinsi" = Siderastrea adkinsi
"Synastrea adkinsi" = Siderastrea adkinsi Wells 1934 stony coral | |
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni Wells 1934 stony coral | |
? Pachygyra sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Leptoria (Dictuophyllia) conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata
"Leptoria (Dictuophyllia) conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral | |
Ovalastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral |