Slippery Rock River succession, B beds, bed 75: Late Maastrichtian, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica State/province:Clarendon
Coordinates: 18.1° 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: Late Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Guinea Corn
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:highstand systems tract
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:162929
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Lauchstedt
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-10-08 02:06:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-01-08 02:06:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
12556. S.F. Mitchell, T. Stemann, D. Blissett, I. Brown, W. O'Brian Ebanks, G. Gunter, D.J. Miller, A.G.M. Pearson, B. Wilson and W.A. Young. 2004. Late Maastrichtian rudist and coral assemblages from the Central Inlier, Jamaica: towards an event stratigraphy for shallow-water Caribbean limestones. Cretaceous Research 25:499-507 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]