Where: St. James Parish, Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 77.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cambridge Formation (Yellow Limestone Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Cambridge Beds aka Yellow Limestone, underlying the White Limestone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl
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 88336: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
"Turbinoseris cantabrigiensis n. sp." = Antilloseris cantabrigiensis, "Turbinoseris jamaicaensis n. sp." = Antilloseris jamaicaensis
"Turbinoseris cantabrigiensis n. sp." = Antilloseris cantabrigiensis Vaughan 1899 stony coral
"Turbinoseris jamaicaensis n. sp." = Antilloseris jamaicaensis Vaughan 1899 stony coral | |
Dendracis cantabrigiensis n. sp.
Dendracis cantabrigiensis n. sp. Vaughan 1899 stony coral | |