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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea | |
? Pygopistes rudistarum Hawkins 1923 sea urchin | |
Heterosalenia occidentalis sea urchin | |
Goniopygus supremus sea urchin | |
Phyllacanthus leoni Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926 pencil urchin |