Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 76.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sign Formation (White Limestone Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Sign Mbr [Fm in Donovan et al., 1993) Montpelier Fm of the White Limestone Gp. AGE: Early Miocene, on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Found from beds throughout the quarry.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. A. Stemann. 2003. Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica. Cainozoic Research 3(1-2):83-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69729: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.03.2007, edited by Austin Hendy and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina cf. palmeri3 Cooper 1979 | |
Tichosina cf. guppyi3 Cooper 1979 | |
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Anthozoa | |
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral | |
Astrocoenia incrustans Duncan 1863 stony coral
Madracis decaseptata Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
Astreopora goethalsi Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Stylophora imperatoris, Stylophora granulata, Stylophora minor, Stylophora undata, Stylophora canalis
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863 stony coral
Stylophora undata Weisbord 1971 stony coral
Stylophora canalis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Montastrea cylindrica Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea tampaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Mycelites ossifragus4 Roux 1887 |