Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 76.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gibraltar Limestone Formation (White Limestone Group), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gibraltar Limestone Mbr of the White Limestone Fm, which overlies the Swanwick Limestone Mbr (Middle-Late Eocene), and is unconformably overlain by the Brownstown Limestobe Mbr (Late Eocene). Approximately equivalent to the upper Troy Limestone Mbr and Someset Limestone Mbr in the central inlier and Machester Plateau of Jamaica. AGE: Late Eocene, based on macrofossil and microfossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the Phacoides megameris band, which is the lower of two in the Late Eocene of this region. LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Gibraltar Limestone according to Cox (1941). This unit is now abandoned, and has been replaced by the Somerset Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by C.A. Matley (1924), Trechmann (1939) and Stockley. Collections reposited in the BMNH.
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1941. Lamellibranchs from the White Limestone of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Malacological Society 24(4):135-144 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60962: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Velates perversus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cardium cedrelarum n. sp., Cardium (? Trigoniocardia) colosseum n. sp.
Cardium cedrelarum n. sp. cockle
Cardium (? Trigoniocardia) colosseum n. sp. cockle |