Trout Hall Decapods: Late Maastrichtian - Early Maastrichtian, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcineretidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica County:Clarendon
Coordinates: 18.1° North, 77.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian - Early Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Guinea Corn Fm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified conglomeratic "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:169303
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, M. Clapham Enterer:L. Baltzly, J. Fearon
Modifier:J. Fearon Research group:decapod
Created:2015-05-16 09:39:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-05-16 09:39:33
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
55320.decapod T. H. Withers. 1922. On a new Brachyurous Crustacean from the Upper Cretaceous of Jamaica. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9(10):534-541 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]