Blue Mountain Inlier, Rio Grande Limestone Fm (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Also known as Reef 4267

Where: Jamaica (18.1° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 65.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Titanosarcolites zone, Rio Grande Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Titanosarcolites Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• shallow marine platform limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. K. Hennhoefer, S. Goetz, and S. F. Mitchell. 2012. Palaeobiology of a Biradiolites mooretownensis rudist lithosome: seasonality, reproductive cyclicity and population dynamics. Lethaia 45:450-461 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198683: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.01.2019, edited by Barbara Seuss

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Biradiolites mooretownensis Trechmann 1924 rudist
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Titanosarcolites sp. Trechmann 1924 rudist