Green Island Inlier (Cretaceous of Jamaica)
Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 67.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Barrettia Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-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 73175: 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 | |
Metholectypus trechmanni Hawkins 1923 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Whitfieldiella gigas rudist
Barrettia multilirata rudist |