Port Morant Harbour locality Qu3: Tarantian, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carpiliidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Pseudorhombilidae
Nanoplax xanthiformis (Milne-Edwards 1880)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Panopeidae
Panopeus sp. Milne Edwards 1834
Panopeus rugosus Milne-Edwards 1880
Hexapanopeus sp. Rathbun 1898
Eurytium sp. Stimpson 1862
Eurypanopeus sp. Milne-Edwards 1880
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Callinectes sp. Stimpson 1860
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Majidae
Mithrax sp. Latreille 1817
Mithrax verrucosus Milne-Edwards 1832
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Epialtidae
Pitho anisodon (Von Martens 1872)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Persephona punctata (Linnaeus 1758)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Pilumnidae
Pilumnus sp. Leach 1816
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Eriphiidae
Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius 1781)
xaymacaensis
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Aethridae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappa springeri Rathbun 1931
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Gecarcinidae
Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille 1828
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Diogenidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callichiridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica County:St Thomas
Coordinates: 17.9° North, 76.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Tarantian
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 132 ± 7 Ka (ESR)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Coastal Formation:Port Morant
Stratigraphy comments: Mitchell et al. (2000) obtained electron spin resonance measurements from corals in the Port Morant Formation at this site that indicate deposition was during latest Oxygen Isotope Stage 6 to, probably, earliest Oxygen Isotope Stage 5e, that is, last interglacial.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly conglomerate
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:224549
Authorizer:J. Wolfe Enterer:J. Wolfe
Created:2022-03-18 12:22:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2022-03-18 12:22:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
80808. S. K. Donovan. 2010. A field guide to the Cretaceous and Cenozoic fossil decapod crustacean localities of Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Science 46(1):39-53 [J. Wolfe/J. Wolfe]