Catadupa, "Catadupa Beds" (Cretaceous to of Jamaica)

Where: St. James Parish, Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 68.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Catadupa Beds" Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• originally assigned to Eocene, but later to Campanian-?Maastrichtian (Wells 1934, p. 72)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1899. Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34:227-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88337: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
"Dichocoenia trechmanni n. sp." = Barysmilia trechmanni1
"Dichocoenia trechmanni n. sp." = Barysmilia trechmanni1 Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
"Favioseris anomalos n. gen. n. sp." = Dichocoenia anomalos1
"Favioseris anomalos n. gen. n. sp." = Dichocoenia anomalos1 Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Rhabdophyllia quaylei n. sp." = Liptodendron nefiana1, "Diploria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata
"Rhabdophyllia quaylei n. sp." = Liptodendron nefiana1 Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
"Diploria conferticostata" = Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral
n. var. columnaris
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
"Prodiploastraea schindewolfi n. gen. n. sp." = Haldonia schindewolfi1
"Prodiploastraea schindewolfi n. gen. n. sp." = Haldonia schindewolfi1 Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Centrastrea hilli n. sp." = Holocoenia hilli1
"Centrastrea hilli n. sp." = Holocoenia hilli1 Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan 1865 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
"? Diplaraea boltonae n. sp." = Gyrodendron boltonae1
"? Diplaraea boltonae n. sp." = Gyrodendron boltonae1 Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Mesomorpha catadupensis n. sp." = Cyathoseris catadupensis, Vaughanoseris catadupensis n. gen. n. sp.1, "Trochoseris catadupensis n. sp." = Trochoseris aperta, "Trochosmilia hilli n. sp." = Trochoseris aperta
"Mesomorpha catadupensis n. sp." = Cyathoseris catadupensis Vaughan 1899 stony coral
Vaughanoseris catadupensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Wells 1934 stony coral
"Trochoseris catadupensis n. sp." = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral
"Trochosmilia hilli n. sp." = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyclolitidae
"Paracycloseris elizabethae n. gen. n. sp." = Paracycloseris nariensis1
"Paracycloseris elizabethae n. gen. n. sp." = Paracycloseris nariensis1 Duncan 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Elephantaria tottoni n. sp.2
Elephantaria tottoni n. sp.2 Wells 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
"Goniopora reussiana" = Goniopora reussiana1, "Goniopora trechmanni n. sp." = Goniopora reussiana1
"Goniopora reussiana" = Goniopora reussiana1 Duncan 1865 stony coral
"Goniopora trechmanni n. sp." = Goniopora reussiana1 Duncan 1865 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
"? Synastrea adkinsi n. sp." = Siderastrea adkinsi1
"? Synastrea adkinsi n. sp." = Siderastrea adkinsi1 Wells 1934 stony coral
1Wells 1934; 2Wells 1935