Friendship [Browns Town Lmst, Moneague Fm]: Early Oligocene, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Agassizia sp.
Valenciennes 1846
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Clypeasteridae
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| 11 specimens | |||||||
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Clypeaster batheri
Lambert 1915
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8 specimens | ||||||
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Clypeaster oxybaphon
Jackson 1922
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Echinoidea
- Echinolampadoida
- Echinolampadidae
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Jamaica | County: | St. Ann Parish |
| Coordinates: | 18.0° North, 77.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Oligocene |
| *International age/stage: | Middle - Late/Upper Chattian - Middle - Late/Upper Chattian | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.9 - 27.3 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | White Limestone | Formation: | Moneague | Member: | Brown's Town Limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Originally assigned to the Brown's Town Limestone. Replaced by Moneague Formation in Stevens (2004). AGE: Oligocene, according to Stevens (2004); placed by enterer in Early Oligocene on the basis of stratigraphic position. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: limestone | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils,all microfossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Contains only the echinoids of the Browns Town Formation | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 7215 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany | Enterer: | E. Kowalski |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 08:42:24 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 08:42:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 460. | H. R. Dixon and S. K. Donovan. 1998. Oligocene echinoids of Jamaica. Tertiary Research 18(3+4):95-124 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski] |
Secondary references:
| 36487 | S. F. Mitchell. 2004. Lithostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the White Limestone Group. Cainozoic Research 3(1-2):5-29 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |