Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 65.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Santonian-Early Campanian according to Donovan (1993);Upper Cretaceous according to Donovan et al. (1993). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: S. K. Donovan. 1993. Jamaican Cretaceous Echinoidea. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:93-103 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73146: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.06.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
? Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) "sp. B" Pomel 1883 pencil urchin | |
Goniopygus supremus sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Comatulidia indet. Clark Feather star |