Where: Jamaica (17.9° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Mitchell et al. (2000) obtained electron spin resonance measurements from corals in the Port Morant Formation on the southeast side of Port Morant Harbour that indicate deposition was during latest Oxygen Isotope Stage 6 to, probably, earliest Oxygen Isotope Stage 5e, that is, last interglacial.
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden (RGM)
Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins, S. K. Donovan, and T. A. Stemann. 2009. Fossil Crustacea of the Late Pleistocene Port Morant Formation, west Port Morant Harbour, southeastern Jamaica. Scripta Geologica 138:23-53 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185032: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus eburneus Gould 1841 barnacle |