Rio Minho, Section 6, Unit C2 (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; massive siltstone and 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 161341: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 04.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
"Sauvagesia macroplicata" = Radiolites macroplicatus Whitfield 1987 rudist
Chiapasella radiolitiformis Trechmann 1924 rudist
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae