Where: Jamaica (17.9° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bowden Formation (Coastal Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• From Pickerill et al. (1998). Bowden Formation is the uppermost stratigraphic unit of the Lower Coastal Group. In its type area of the Bowden district, natural exposrues of the formation are poor and discontinuous, so that a complete and detailed stratigraphy of teh entire sequence cannot be determined. The formation has an extimated maximum thickness of 150m, although the basal part of the formartion is unexposed. The top of the formation is defined by the nonconformably overlying, early Pleistocene Old Pera Beds of the Upper Coastal Group. The unit was formely regarded as Miocene in age, even Oligocene, but foraminiferal and planktic gastropod biostratigraphy points to a late Pliocene age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; unlithified, pebbly, conglomeratic marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• Collections reposited at Johns Hopkins University, USNM, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1925. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58522: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.02.2006

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