Underwood & Mitchell, 2004
| Author(s): | Underwood, C. J., Mitchell, S. F. |
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| Year: | 2004 |
| Title: | Sharks, bony fishes and endodental borings from the Miocene Montpelier Formation (White Limestone Group) of Jamaica |
| Journal: | Cainozoic Research |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Number: | 1-2 |
| Pages: | 157-165 |
| Abstract | Bulk samples of Miocene carbonate sediments (deep-water chalks and shallow-water-derived calcarenites) from the Montpelier Formation (White Limestone Group) in Duncans Quarry, Jamaica, have yielded a small, but diverse, fauna of disassociated fish remains. Shark remains include the teeth of five species, four of which are squalids. A diverse, but taxonomically indeterminate, osteichthyan tooth assemblage is also present. A number of the teeth contain microborings of two ichnotaxa. The assemblage is considered to be typical of a deep-water continental slope fauna, and indicates an abrupt northern margin of the Miocene shallow-water carbonate platforms. |
| Keywords: | Bioerosion, Carbonates, Deepāmarine, Microbioerosion, Miocene, paleontoloogia, Shallow-marine, Trace fossils |
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