Grantham, bed D6: Late Maastrichtian, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Titanosarcolites sp. Trechmann 1924
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina tschoppi (Palmer 1933)
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica State/province:Clarendon
Coordinates: 18.2° North, 77.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Guinea Corn Member:D Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bed D6
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:93562
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-01-25 04:59:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-25 04:59:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31693. S. F. Mitchell and G. C. Gunter. 2004. First record of the rudist bivalve Mitrocaprina tschoppi (Palmer) from the Maastrichtian of Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Science 40(3):392-396 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]