loc. 79 (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Also known as USGS Mesozoic Collection No. 30141

Where: Jamaica (18.2° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guinea Corn Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• from 70.73 m above the base of formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown shale

• brownish hackly shale

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and H. A. Kollmann. 1985. Cretaceous Actaeonellid Gastropods from the Western Hemisphere. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1304:1-104 [P. Harries/P. Harries]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66447: authorized by Peter Harries, entered by Peter Harries on 09.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Actaeonella marchmontensis Sohl and Kollmann 1985 snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Trochactaeon granthamensis Sohl and Kollmann 1985 snail