Also known as Reef 3242

Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 77.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hope Gate Formation, Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Latest Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Corals only

Primary reference: A. F. Budd and D. F. McNeill. 1998. Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast Jamaica. Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 35(1-4):47-62 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34543: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 08.09.2003