Moore Town, Blue Mountains (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Portland, Jamaica (18.1° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 71.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rio Grande Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified siltstone

• small Biradiolites bouquets in the organic-rich siltstone sequence in the lower part; large Biradiolites bouquets in the upper limestone part

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. F. Mitchell, G. C. Gunter, and R. Ramsook. 2007. Paleoecology of the Maastrichtian rudist Biradiolites in Jamaica. In R. W. Scott (ed.), Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms: environmental feedback, SEPM Special Publication 87:81-94 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84789: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Chiapasella sp., Biradiolites mooretownensis
Chiapasella sp. Müllerried 1931 rudist
Biradiolites mooretownensis Trechmann 1924 rudist
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Titanosarcolites sp.
Titanosarcolites sp. Trechmann 1924 rudist