Central Inlier (Cretaceous to of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.2° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 67.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Guinea Corn Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 73169: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.06.2007, edited by Barbara Seuss

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Irregularia -
Cassiduloida indet.
Cassiduloida indet. Agassiz and Desor 1847 sea urchin
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
? Pygopistes rudistarum
? Pygopistes rudistarum Hawkins 1923 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
? Hemiaster sp.
? Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin
 Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Heterosalenia occidentalis
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus supremus
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phyllacanthus leoni
Phyllacanthus leoni Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926 pencil urchin
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippuritella muellerriedi, Praebarrettia sparcilirata