Where: Westmoreland, Jamaica (18.3° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Mountain Series Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Campanian(-?Maastrichtian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1899. Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34:227-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88331: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cladocora jamaicaensis n. sp.
Cladocora jamaicaensis n. sp. Vaughan 1899 stony coral | |
"Leptophyllia agassizi n. sp." = Acrosmilia agassizi
"Leptophyllia agassizi n. sp." = Acrosmilia agassizi Vaughan 1899 stony coral |