Central Inlier: Late Campanian - Maastrichtian, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phyllacanthus leoni (Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926)
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
? Pygopistes rudistarum (Hawkins 1923)
Echinoidea - Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Mitchell 2010
Mitchell 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica
Coordinates: 18.2° North, 77.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian - Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7 - Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Campanian - Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Guinea Corn
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
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
Database number:73169
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, B. Seuss Enterer:U. Merkel, B. Seuss
Modifier:B. Seuss Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-06 00:46:29 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-06 00:46:29
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
24580.1% 4300S. K. Donovan. 1993. Jamaican Cretaceous Echinoidea. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:93-103 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

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]