Falmouth Formation: Late Pleistocene, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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Echinoidea
- Camarodonta
- Echinometridae
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Echinometra lucunter
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Echinoidea
- Camarodonta
- Toxopneustidae
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? Lytechinus sp.
Agassiz 1863
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Echinoidea
- Camarodonta
- Echinidae
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? Tripneustes sp.
Agassiz 1841
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
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Echinoidea
- Diadematoida
- Diadematidae
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| or Astropyga magnifica | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Jamaica |
| Coordinates: | 18.5° North, 77.4° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
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: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Falmouth Fm, which unconformably overlies the Hope Gate Fm. AGE: Late Pleistocene, last interglacial, Sangamonian, ~125,000 yrs bp. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: General collection for 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 |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Back reef environment, presumably a lagoon. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Includes: Donovan. REPOSITORY: Includes: University of the West Indies. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution determination. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 90592 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-08-09 20:03:02 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-08-09 20:03:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18706. | P. M. Kier. 1992. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 13. The Class Echinoidea (Echinodermata). Bulletins of American Paleontology 102(339):13-28 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 30683 | S. K. Donovan. 1993. Jamaican Cenozoic Echinoidea. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:371-412 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |