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
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
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinidae indet. Gislén 1924 Sea lily |