Freemans Hall: Lutetian, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country: | Jamaica | County: | Trelawny |
Coordinates: | 18.3° North, 77.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 16.8° North, 76.9° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Yellow Limestone | Formation: | Chapelton | Member: | Stettin |
Stratigraphy comments: "early middle Eocene" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
Database number: | 49874 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-29 08:03:05 | Last modified: | 2022-03-04 09:22:52 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-29 08:03:05 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13400. | R. J. G. Savage, D. P. Domning, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 1994. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. V. The most primitive known sirenian, Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3):427-449 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
64566 | D. P. Domning and J. M. Clark. 1993. Jamaican Tertiary marine Vertebratra. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:413-415 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
18757 | R. Owen. 1855. On the fossil skull of a mammal (Prorastomus sirenoides, Owen), from the Island of Jamaica. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 11:541-543 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |