Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 76.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Troy Limestone Formation (White Limestone Group), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• TEXT: Middle-Late Eocene; previously mapped as "Claremont Limestone". LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Formely placed in the Claremont Fm. Replaced by Troy Limestone in Stevens (2004).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: T. A. Stemann. 2003. Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica. Cainozoic Research 3(1-2):83-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69726: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Stylocoeniella "sp. A" Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 stony coral
Pocillopora "sp. A" Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora "sp. F" Schweigger 1819 stony coral
Stylophora willoughbyi Wells 1945 stony coral | |
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Astrocoenia jukesbrownei Wells 1945 stony coral
Astrocoenia decaturensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Madracis "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
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Meandrina "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
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Trachyphyllia "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Goniopora taberi" = Goniopora reussiana, Porites "sp. A"
"Goniopora taberi" = Goniopora reussiana Duncan 1865 stony coral
Porites "sp. A" Link 1807 stony coral | |
| Hydrozoa | |
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Millepora sp. fire coral | |