Where: Clarendon, Jamaica (18.2° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: D Beds Member (Guinea Corn Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Bed D6

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. F. Mitchell and G. C. Gunter. 2004. First record of the rudist bivalve Mitrocaprina tschoppi (Palmer) from the Maastrichtian of Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Science 40(3):392-396 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93562: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2010

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