Newton Farm 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; 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 162541: 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 | |
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Goniopygus supremus sea urchin | |
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Heterosalenia occidentalis sea urchin | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Plagioptychus fragilis rudist | |
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Hippurites mullerriedi rudist
Hippurites maldonensis rudist | |
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Bournonia sp. Fischer 1887 rudist
Bournonia cancellata rudist
Thyrastylon adhaerens rudist
Thyrastylon coryi rudist | |
Antillocaprina sp., Antillocaprina quadrangularis, Antillocaprina suboccidentalis, Titanosarcolites alatus, Titanosarcolites giganteus
Antillocaprina sp. Trechmann 1924 rudist
Titanosarcolites alatus rudist
Titanosarcolites giganteus rudist | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Leptoria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |