Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 76.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sign Formation (White Limestone Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Sign Mbr [Fm in Donovan et al., 1993) Montpelier Fm of the White Limestone Gp. AGE: Early Miocene, on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Found from beds throughout the quarry.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. A. Stemann. 2003. Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica. Cainozoic Research 3(1-2):83-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69729: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.03.2007, edited by Austin Hendy and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montastrea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea cylindrica Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea tampaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral
Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Stylophora granulata, Stylophora imperatoris, Stylophora canalis, Stylophora undata, Stylophora minor
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Stylophora canalis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Stylophora undata Weisbord 1971 stony coral
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Astreopora goethalsi Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Astrocoenia incrustans Duncan 1863 stony coral
Madracis decaseptata Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Tichosina cf. guppyi3 Cooper 1979 | |
Terebratulina cf. palmeri3 Cooper 1979 | |
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Mycelites ossifragus4 Roux 1887 |