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

Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 66.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• probably Newmans Hall and Sunderland Shales

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

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 73173: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.06.2007, edited by Barbara Seuss

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Toxopneustidae
"Scoliechinus axiologus" = Scholiechinus
"Scoliechinus axiologus" = Scholiechinus sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae