Freemans Hall: Lutetian, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Jamaica | County: | Trelawny |
| Coordinates: | 18.3° North, 77.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.8° North, 76.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Yellow Limestone | Formation: | Chapelton | Member: | Stettin |
| Stratigraphy comments: "early middle Eocene" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49874 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-29 08:03:05 | Last modified: | 2022-03-04 09:22:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-29 08:03:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13400. | R. J. G. Savage, D. P. Domning, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 1994. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. V. The most primitive known sirenian, Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3):427-449 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 64566 | D. P. Domning and J. M. Clark. 1993. Jamaican Tertiary marine Vertebratra. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:413-415 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 18757 | R. Owen. 1855. On the fossil skull of a mammal (Prorastomus sirenoides, Owen), from the Island of Jamaica. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 11:541-543 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |