Where: Clarendon, Jamaica (18.1° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 72.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Guinea Corn Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: S.F. Mitchell, T. Stemann, D. Blissett, I. Brown, W. O'Brian Ebanks, G. Gunter, D.J. Miller, A.G.M. Pearson, B. Wilson and W.A. Young. 2004. Late Maastrichtian rudist and coral assemblages from the Central Inlier, Jamaica: towards an event stratigraphy for shallow-water Caribbean limestones. Cretaceous Research 25:499-507 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162929: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 08.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Thyrastylon adhaerens rudist
Bournonia cancellata rudist
Chiapasella radiolitiformis Trechmann 1924 rudist | |
Antillocaprina occidentalis rudist |