Marchmont Inlier, St. James Parish (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 72.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Titanosarcolites Limestone Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 73168: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
? Pygopistes rudistarum Hawkins 1923 sea urchin
 Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phyllacanthus leoni Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926 pencil urchin