Shaw Castle, Maldon Inlier, St. James Parrish (Cretaceous to of Jamaica)
Where: Jamaica (18.1° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 72.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Maastrichtian to Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: R. Baron-szabo. 2002. pers. comm. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.12.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Only corals included
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Anthozoa | |
Phytogyra sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Madracis johnwellsi Frost and Langenheim 1974 stony coral | |
Stylophora octophylla Felix 1906 stony coral | |
Astraraea media Sowerby 1832 stony coral | |
Synastrea garumnica Vidal 1921 stony coral | |
Actinhelia elegans Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Actinacis reussi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
Elephantaria lindstroemi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral | |
"Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta
"Trochoseris catadupensis" = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
"Paracycloseris elizabethae" = Paracycloseris nariensis
"Paracycloseris elizabethae" = Paracycloseris nariensis Duncan 1880 stony coral | |
Loboseris sp. Beauvais 1982 stony coral | |
Dermosmiliopsis tenuicosta stony coral | |
Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral
Cladocora gracilis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Goniastrea insignis Duncan 1880 stony coral
Antiguastrea cellulosa Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Paraplacocoenia orbignyana" = Paraplacocoenia rotula
"Paraplacocoenia orbignyana" = Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan 1865 stony coral | |
"Polytremacis cf. edwardsana" = Heliopora radiata
"Polytremacis cf. edwardsana" = Heliopora radiata Orbigny 1850 |