Grantham, B3 Beds (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Clarendon, Jamaica (18.2° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 71.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: B3 Beds Member (Guinea Corn Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• beds 58-74 of the "B3 Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• limestones with diverse rudists and corals, siltstone intercalations

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 84791: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.11.2008

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