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
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Echinoidea | |
"Scoliechinus axiologus" = Scholiechinus
"Scoliechinus axiologus" = Scholiechinus sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Whitfieldiella gigas rudist |