Whitney Valley, Clarendon Parish [Yellow Limestone Gp] (Eocene of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.1° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 76.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yellow Limestone Group, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1934. Some fossil corals from the West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2975):71-110 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77036: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
"Eupsammia clarendonensis n. sp." = Balanophyllia clarendonensis
"Eupsammia clarendonensis n. sp." = Balanophyllia clarendonensis Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
Antilloseris sp. Vaughan 1905 stony coral