Where: Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 77.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guys Hill Member (Chapelton Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• said to be "late early to early middle Eocene"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; calcareous sandstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: not clear if invertebrates were collected

Primary reference: D. P. Domning, R. J. Emry, R. W. Portell, S. K. Donovan, and K. S. Schindler. 1997. Oldest West Indian land mammal: rhinocerotoid ungulate from the Eocene of Jamaica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(4):638-641 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5241: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.09.1999, edited by Mark Uhen

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