Content, Hope Bay, parish of Portland (Eocene of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.0° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unnamed lithostratigraphic that conformably overlies the Font Hill Fm. AGE: Middle Eocene in text; justification for age not reported. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimen.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Scott; reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTOR: A. D. Scott. REPOSITORY: BMNH.

Primary reference: S. K. Donovan, C. M. Gordon, C. J. Veltkamp and A. D. Scott. 1993. Crinoid, asteroids, and ophiuroids in the Jamaican fossil record. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:125-130 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91195: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to echinoderms described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, but lacks species-resolution identification due to preservation.
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Isocrinidae indet. Gislén 1924 Sea lily