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
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 | |
Barrettia monilifera rudist | |
Biradiolites mooretownensis Trechmann 1924 rudist | |
Titanosarcolites sp. Trechmann 1924 rudist |