Pimento Hill, Beecher Town, St. Ann parish [Swanswick Fm]: Bartonian - Late Eocene, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Astrocoeniidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Hydnophora variabilis
(Duncan 1873)
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? Caulastraea sp.
Dana 1846
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Diploastraeidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Actinacididae
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Actinacis alabamensis
(Vaughan 1900)
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Hydrozoa
- Milleporina
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Caribbaster loveni
(Cotteau 1875)
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Donovan and Rowe 2000 | ||||||
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Asteroidea
- Paxillosida
- Astropectinidae
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Callianassidae
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"Callianassa" sp.
Leach 1814
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Geography
| Country: | Jamaica |
| Coordinates: | 18.4° North, 77.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian - Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian - Late Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 41.03 - 33.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | White Limestone | Formation: | Swanswick | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Swanswick Fm of the White Limestone Gp. AGE: Middle Eocene-Late Eocene; justification not given in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Patch reef; limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithification, on the basis of facies description. | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: BMNH. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for echinoderms. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, but only family-level identifications dues to preservation. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3566; Loc. 2 (Donovan & Gordon, 1989) | ||
| Database number: | 69727 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, A. Hendy, M. Clapham, M. Uhen | Enterer: | U. Merkel, M. Uhen, M. Clapham, A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-05 04:01:16 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-05 04:01:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23393. | T. A. Stemann. 2003. Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica. Cainozoic Research 3(1-2):83-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 82138 | J. S. H. Collins and S. K. Donovan. 2006. New decapod crustaceans from the Palaeogene of Jamaica. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 33:59-65 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez] | |
| 30678 | S. K. Donovan, C. M. Gordon, C. J. Veltkamp and A. D. Scott. 1993. Crinoid, asteroids, and ophiuroids in the Jamaican fossil record. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:125-130 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 70175 | S. K. Donovan and D.-A. C. Rowe. 2000. Spatangoid Echinoids from the Eocene of Jamaica. Journal of Paleontology 74(4):654-661 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |