Rock Spring, Parish of Hanover [Yellow Limestone Gp] (Eocene to of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 77.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yellow Limestone Group, Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Yellow Limestone Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Lower or Middle Eocene in text; justification for age not reported in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: BMNH.

Primary reference: S. K. Donovan, C. M. Gordon, C. J. Veltkamp and A. D. Scott. 1993. Crinoid, asteroids, and ophiuroids in the Jamaican fossil record. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:125-130 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91193: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to echinoderms described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and some species-resolution identifications.
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Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet.
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star
or Goniasteridae indet.