Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° N, 63.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Peace Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• overlying Clifton Limestone Member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: S. K. Donovan, S. F. Mitchell, and D. N. Lewis. 2006. The irregular echinoid Nucleopygus from the Upper Cretaceous of western Jamaica. Cretaceous Research 27:577-583 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99825: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Cordiceramus muelleri" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus), Cataceramus balticus
"Cordiceramus muelleri" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) clam |