Rio Minho, Section 3, Unit A, upper part (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Clarendon, Jamaica (18.2° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 71.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guinea Corn Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper Campanian? to Maastrichtian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty shale and silty limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. F. Mitchell. 1999. Stratigraphy of the Guinea Corn Formation (Upper Cretaceous) at its type locality in the Rio Minho between Grantham and Guinea Corn, northern Clarendon, Jamaica. The Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica 33:1-12 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161324: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 04.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni
"Ovalastrea trechmanni" = Barysmilia trechmanni Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyclolitidae
Paracycloseris sp.
Paracycloseris sp. Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp.
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Thyrastylon adhaerens, Distefanella sp., Bournonia cancellata
Distefanella sp. Parona 1901 rudist
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Antillocaprina occidentalis, Titanosarcolites giganteus