Blue Mountain Inlier, Rio Grande Limestone Fm: Late Campanian, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Titanosarcolites sp. Trechmann 1924
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Mitchell 2010
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
100000 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica
Coordinates: 18.1° North, 76.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Late Campanian Zone:  Titanosarcolites
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rio Grande Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Titanosarcolites Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: shallow marine platform limestones
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 4267
Database number:198683
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, B. Seuss Enterer:M. Krause, B. Seuss
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-01-07 03:09:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2019-04-07 03:09:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
67703. D. K. Hennhoefer, S. Goetz, and S. F. Mitchell. 2012. Palaeobiology of a Biradiolites mooretownensis rudist lithosome: seasonality, reproductive cyclicity and population dynamics. Lethaia 45:450-461 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]

Secondary references:

77533 S.F. Mitchell. 2010. Revision of three large species of Barrettia from Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Earth science 41:1-16 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]