Rio Minho, Section 2, Unit B3, Bed B3c: Maastrichtian, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
unclassified
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica State/province:Clarendon
Coordinates: 18.2° North, 77.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Guinea Corn
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Campanian? to Maastrichtian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular siltstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:161333
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Lauchstedt
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2014-09-04 08:53:34 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-12-04 08:53:34
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
52576. S. F. Mitchell. 1999. Stratigraphy of the Guinea Corn Formation (Upper Cretaceous) at its type locality in the Rio Minho between Grantham and Guinea Corn, northern Clarendon, Jamaica. The Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica 33:1-12 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]