Jerusalem Mountain Inlier, Parish of Hanover [Titanosarcolites Lmst] (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Titanosarcolites Limestone Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Titanosarcolites Limestone, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Maastrichtian, presumably on the basis of bivalve biostratigraphy; Middle-Late Maastrichtian in PBDB coll.# 27650; here placed in Late Maastrichtian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List is representative of unit in local area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: British Museum of Natural History.

Primary reference: S. K. Donovan. 1993. Jamaican Cretaceous Echinoidea. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:93-103 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73148: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.06.2007, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for echinodermata. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
? Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phyllacanthus leoni Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926 pencil urchin