Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° N, 76.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Moneague Formation (White Limestone Group), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• The White Limestone covers more than half the island and is over 2,000 ft thick. Its large foraminifera suggest an age of Late Eocene to Early Miocene. AGE: Oligocene, according to Stevens (2004); placed by enterer in Early Oligocene on the basis of stratigraphic position.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by C.A. Matley (1924), Trechmann (1939) and Stockley. Collections reposited in the BMNH.
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1941. Lamellibranchs from the White Limestone of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Malacological Society 24(4):135-144 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60958: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Phacoides (Pseudomiltha) megameris" = Superlucina megameris
"Phacoides (Pseudomiltha) megameris" = Superlucina megameris Dall 1901 clam | |
Sawkinsia matleyi n. sp., Cardium cedrelarum n. sp., "Cardium (? Trigoniocardia) colosseum n. sp." = Trigoniocardia
Sawkinsia matleyi n. sp. Cox 1941 cockle
Cardium cedrelarum n. sp. cockle
"Cardium (? Trigoniocardia) colosseum n. sp." = Trigoniocardia cockle |