Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Titanosarcolites Limestone Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Titanosarcolites Limestone, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Maastrichtian, presumably on the basis of bivalve biostratigraphy; Middle-Late Maastrichtian in PBDB coll.# 27650; here placed in Late Maastrichtian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List is representative of unit in local area.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: British Museum of Natural History.
Primary reference: S. K. Donovan. 1993. Jamaican Cretaceous Echinoidea. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:93-103 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73148: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.06.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star | |
Echinoidea | |
? Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin | |
Phyllacanthus leoni Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926 pencil urchin |