Loc. 2 - Discovery Bay [Falmouth Fm]: Late Pleistocene, Jamaica
collected by Donovan & Littlewood 1988-1990

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
1 specimen
    = Chione elevata Say 1822
Hendy et al. 2008
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
22 specimens
Chione paphia (Linnaeus 1767)
6 specimens
Pitar albida (Gmelin 1791)
31 specimens
Transennella ? cubaniana (d'Orbigny 1853)
4 specimens
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
2 specimens
Chama macerophylla Gmelin 1791
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra fragilis Gmelin 1792
2 specimens
unclassified
Tagelus divisus Spengler 1794
61 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Americardia guppyi (Thiele 1910)
4 specimens
Americardia media (Linnaeaus 1758)
3 specimens
1 specimen
Laevicardium laevigatum (Linnaeus 1758)
22 specimens
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
1 specimen
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
4 specimens
Tellina similis Sowerby 1806
28 specimens
Tellina listeri Röding 1798
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828
11 specimens
Codakia costata (d'Orbigny 1846)
7 specimens
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
3 specimens
Codakia orbiculata (Montagu 1808)
4 specimens
76 specimens
2 specimens
Codakia orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten ? chazaliei Dautzenberg 1900
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
? Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arcidae indet. Lamarck 1809
1 specimen
Arca imbricata Bruguière 1789
2 specimens
unclassified
Barbatia cancellaria Lamarck 1819
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Bullidae
Bulla striata Bruguiére 1792
611 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Retusidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Phasianellidae
Tricolia sp. Risso 1826
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Neritidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora ? cayenensis (Lamarck 1822)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Janthinidae
Janthina sp. Ršding 1798
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
? Crassispira sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Cymatium ? caribbaeum (Clench and Turner 1957)
1 specimen
Cymatium sp. Röding 1798
3 specimens
including juveniles
Cymatium muricinum (Röding 1798)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus gigas Linnaeus 1758
17 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus 1758)
5 specimens
Anachis sp. Adams and Adams 1853
2 specimens
1 specimen
Anachis obesa (Adams 1845)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria tulipa (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
37 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
13 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
1 specimen
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
1 specimen
juvenile
Natica canrena (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Polinices lacteus (Guilding 1834)
78 specimens
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
? Rissoina sp. d'Orbigny 1840
1 specimen
Rissoina aberrans (Adams 1850)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Modulidae
Modulus carchedonius (Lamarck 1822)
7 specimens
Modulus modulus (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Planaxidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789
58 specimens
Cerithium eburneum Bruguière 1792
3 specimens
3 specimens
33 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
1 specimen
2 specimens
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica
Coordinates: 18.5° North, 77.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Coastal Formation:Falmouth
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Falmouth Fm, which unconformably overlies the Hope Gate Fm. THICKNESS: Sample collected from 2-4 m of section of unknown thickness. AGE: Late Pleistocene, last interglacial, Sangamonian, ~125,000 yrs bp. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position with formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Hard, fine-grained, well-lithified, but occasionally chalky limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description.
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Back reef environment, presumably a lagoon.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Bioerosion:occasional
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:Donovan & Littlewood Collection dates:1988-1990
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Donovan and Littlewood. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the University of the West Indies.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia, and scaphopoda. Other groups present, but not listed. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with relatively modern nomenclature and species-resolution determination. Identified using Abbott (1954, 1958, 1974); de Jong and Coomans (1988), Fischer (1988), Humfrey (1975), Morris (1975), Vaught (1989), and Warmke and Abbott (1961).
Metadata
Also known as:Loc. 5 (Liddle et al. (1984)
Database number:80408
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-20 10:32:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-04-20 10:32:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
27055. S. K. Donovan and D. T. J. Littlewood. 1993. The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), Jamaica. The Nautilus 107(1):33-42 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

19909 A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]