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Pleistocene echinoid (Echinodermata) fauna from southeast Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Stephen K. Donovan ,
Harold L. Dixon ,
Ron K. Pickerill  and
Eamon N. Doyle
Stephen K. Donovan
Affiliation:
1Department of Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
Harold L. Dixon
Affiliation:
1Department of Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
Ron K. Pickerill
Affiliation:
2Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada
Eamon N. Doyle
Affiliation:
1Department of Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
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Abstract

A previously undocumented echinoid fauna occurs in the terrigenous clastic sedimentary sequence of the Old Pera Beds (Lower Pleistocene) and the overlying Port Morant Formation (Upper Pleistocene) at Old Pera, parish of St. Thomas, southeast Jamaica. The fauna is comprised of complete tests (particularly from two horizons in the Port Morant Formation), test fragments, and radioles, and includes: Cidaris (Tretocidaris) bartletti (A. Agassiz); Eucidaris tribuloides (Lamarck); diadematoid indet. gen. and sp.; Echinometra viridis A. Agassiz; Echinometra? sp.; Clypeaster rosaceus (Linné); a juvenile C. subdepressus? (Gray); mellitid indet. gen. and sp.; clypeasteroid sp.; Schizaster doederleini Chesher; Meoma ventricosa (Lamarck); and irregular indet. gen. and sp. Schizaster doederleini is still extant in the Caribbean, but is not known to live in Jamaican waters. Schizaster doederleini and Meoma ventricosa are the first nominal spatangoids to be reported from the Jamaican Pleistocene.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , March 1994 , pp. 351 - 358
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