Rio Minho, Section 7, Unit D3 (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, silty limestone and siltstone

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 161351: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 04.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Thyrastylon adhaerens rudist
scattered
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Antillocaprina sp. Trechmann 1924 rudist
few