Lee's Marl Crushing Plant [Brown's Town Lmst, Moneague Fm]: Early/Lower Oligocene, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Prionocidaris spinidentatus
34 specimens
Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Echinoneus cf. cyclostomus Leske 1778
3 specimens
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster batheri Lambert 1915
14 specimens
Clypeaster oxybaphon Jackson 1922
8 specimens
Echinoidea - Spatangoida
Spatangoida indet. Agassiz 1840
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Agassizia sp. Valenciennes 1846
4 specimens
Mammalia - Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. Illiger 1811
Dixon et al. 1999
from appendix by D. P. Domning
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lacernidae
Lacerna sp.
Dixon et al. 1999
from appendix by P. D. Taylor
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica County:St. Ann Parish
Coordinates: 18.0° North, 77.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.9° North, 76.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Middle Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Oligocene
*International age/stage:Middle - Late/Upper Chattian - Middle - Late/Upper Chattian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:White Limestone Formation:Moneague Member:Brown's Town Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Originally assigned to the Brown's Town Limestone. Replaced by Moneague Formation in Stevens (2004). AGE: Oligocene, according to Stevens (2004); placed by enterer in Early Oligocene on the basis of stratigraphic position.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: limestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils,all microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Contains only the echinoids of the Browns Town Formation
Metadata
Database number:7214
Authorizer:L. Ivany, M. Uhen Enterer:E. Kowalski, M. Uhen
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 08:40:44 Last modified:2014-04-09 10:55:48
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 08:40:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

460. H. R. Dixon and S. K. Donovan. 1998. Oligocene echinoids of Jamaica. Tertiary Research 18(3+4):95-124 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]

Secondary references:

18865 H. L. Dixon, S. K. Donovan, D. P. Domning and P. D. Taylor. 1999. Report of a field meeting to the area around Browns Town, parish of St. Ann, north-central Jamaica, 21st February, 1998. The Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica 33:24-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
36487 S. F. Mitchell. 2004. Lithostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the White Limestone Group. Cainozoic Research 3(1-2):5-29 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]