Also known as Reef 3800

Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falmouth Formation (Coastal Group), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 125,000 y.b.p.

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: line-transecting techniques, standard point-counting techniques

Primary reference: S. K. Boss and W. D. Liddell. 1987. Back-reef and Fore-reef Analogs in the Pleistocene of North Jamaica: Implications for Facies Recognition and Sediment Flux in Fossil reefs. Palaios 2:219-228 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80611: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 29.04.2008

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