Slippery Rocky succession,A beds, bed 67 (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

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: poorly lithified, silty limestone

• Weakly cemented, highly silty limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

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 47117: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 08.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae