Slippery Rock River succession, B beds, bed 71: Late Maastrichtian, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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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" |
| Lithology description: Limestone, unbedded. | |
| 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: | 47120 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany | Enterer: | P. Wall |
| Modifier: | A. Lauchstedt | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-02-08 14:25:31 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2005-05-08 14:25:31 |
| 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] |