Lucea Inlier, central block (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

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

• biosparite containing rudistid bivalves, molluscan shell debris, rhodoliths and fragments of red algae, interbedded with oomicrites and oosparites containing Nucleopygus

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
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Cordiceramus cf. muelleri" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus)
"Cordiceramus cf. muelleri" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) clam
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites inaequicostatus rudist
subsp. vermunti
Barrettia ruseae Chubb 1967 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
Mitrocaprina sp. Boehm 1895 rudist
Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae