Bruce Hall - Great River Rudist locality (Cretaceous of Jamaica)
Where: St. James, Jamaica (18.3° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 72.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. C. Gunter. 2002. Two very fossiliferous rudist sites from the Marchmont Inlier, northwestern Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Earth Science 36:21-26 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162540: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 29.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
Goniopygus supremus sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Plagioptychus fragilis rudist | |
Hippurites mullerriedi rudist | |
Bournonia barretti, Bournonia cancellata, Bournonia thiadensi, Chiapasella sp., Biradiolites rudissimus
Bournonia barretti rudist
Bournonia cancellata rudist
Bournonia thiadensi rudist
Chiapasella sp. Müllerried 1931 rudist
Biradiolites rudissimus rudist | |
Antillocaprina quadrangularis, Antillocaprina stellata, Titanosarcolites alatus, Titanosarcolites giganteus
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Anthozoa | |
Leptoria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |