Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° N, 63.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Clifton Limestone Member (Mount Peace Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone and lithified, ooidal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: S. K. Donovan, S. F. Mitchell, and D. N. Lewis. 2006. The irregular echinoid Nucleopygus from the Upper Cretaceous of western Jamaica. Cretaceous Research 27:577-583 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99824: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Eupachydiscus jamaicensis ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cordiceramus cf. muelleri" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus)
"Cordiceramus cf. muelleri" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) clam | |
Barrettia ruseae Chubb 1967 rudist | |
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
Mitrocaprina sp. Boehm 1895 rudist | |
Echinoidea | |
Nucleopygus cubensis sea urchin |