Nine Turns-Coffee Piece, Jamaica (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 71.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. Baron-szabo. 2002. pers. comm. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27652: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Only corals included
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Psilogyra felixi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
Coffee Ground