Ducketts crossroads and Ducketts, Marchmont Inlier, Parish of Westmoreland (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.2° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 72.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic details reported in text. AGE: Maastrichtian in text; justification of age not reported. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List representative of formation in local area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• COLLECTOR: Not reported in text. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the USNM as collection locality is USGS registered.

Primary reference: R. Baron-szabo. 2002. pers. comm. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27647: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.12.2002, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for corals and echinoderms. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications, along with unpublished faunal lists.
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Barysmilia trechmanni Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora octophylla Felix 1906 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea exigua Alloiteau 1954 stony coral
Actinastrea hexaphylla Quenstedt 1881 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea adkinsi Wells 1934 stony coral
"Fungiastraea exigua" = Palaeosiderofungia exigua Reuss 1854 stony coral
Siderofungia bella Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinhelia elegans Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Actinacis reussi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
"Actinacis multipartita" = Actinacis martiniana d’Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Elephantaria lindstroemi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Cyathoseris senessei" = Cyathoseris catadupensis
"Cyathoseris senessei" = Cyathoseris catadupensis Vaughan 1899 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
Gyrodendron boltonae Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyclolitidae
"Paracycloseris elizabethae" = Paracycloseris nariensis
"Paracycloseris elizabethae" = Paracycloseris nariensis Duncan 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
"Cricocyathus grumi" = Pattalophyllia grumi
"Cricocyathus grumi" = Pattalophyllia grumi Catullo 1852 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Aulosmilia aspera Sowerby 1832 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
"Ovalastrea gregoryi" = Favia gregoryi
"Ovalastrea gregoryi" = Favia gregoryi Wells 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral
Liptodendron nefiana Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
Antiguastrea cellulosa Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan 1865 stony coral
 Helioporacea -
"Polytremacis cf. edwardsana" = Heliopora radiata, Polytremacis partschi
"Polytremacis cf. edwardsana" = Heliopora radiata Orbigny 1850