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

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