Upper Clarendon District (Cretaceous of Jamaica)
Where: Jamaica (18.1° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° N, 65.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Mountain Series Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Campanian(-?Maastrichtian)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1899. Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34:227-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88335: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.04.2009
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Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
"Porites reussiana" = Goniopora reussiana
"Porites reussiana" = Goniopora reussiana Duncan 1865 stony coral | |
"Meandraraea clarendonensis n. sp." = Morphastrea escharoides
"Meandraraea clarendonensis n. sp." = Morphastrea escharoides Goldfuss 1826 stony coral |