ammonites
Ironshore Formation, British West Indies, subreef (Pleistocene of Cayman Islands)

Also known as Reef 3752

Where: Cayman Islands (19.3° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 81.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ironshore Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• corals dated as 121 +/- 6 ka (Woodroffe et al. 1983)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. A. Cerridwen and B. Jones. 1991. Distribution of Bivalves and Gastropod in the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Science 27(3-4):97-116 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80854: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 16.05.2008