Benbow-Guys Hill Inlier, St. Mary Parish (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

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 73172: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus sp. Agassiz 1838 sea urchin