Bog Walk [Newport Lmst, Moneague Fm]: Early Miocene, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus aff. polythalamia (Linnaeus 1767)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Apolymetis sp. Salisbury 1929
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Anodontia sp. Link 1807
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis sp. Scopoli 1777
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Gastropoda - Thersiteidae
Orthaulax sp. Gabb 1872
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica
Coordinates: 18.1° North, 77.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene Foram zone:  Amphistorites matleyi
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:White Limestone Formation:Moneague Member:Newport Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Newport Formation. AGE: Early Miocene, according to Stevens (2004) on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: scattered coral rudstones, floatstones and framestones; biostromes or patch-reefs
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: Various repositories, including NHM, Basel.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Not and authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature and few species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:111548
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-25 06:36:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-06-25 06:36:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
36512. P. Jung. 1972. Mollusks from the White Limestone Group of Jamaica. Memorias de la VI Conferencia Geologica del Caribe - Margarita, Venezuela 465-468 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]