The trace fossil Schaubcylindrichnus coronus Frey and Howard, 1981 from the White Limestone Group of northeastern Jamaica

The upper Lower-Middle Miocene Pelleu Island Formation of the Middle Eocene to Middle Miocene White Limestone Group, northeast Jamaica, has yielded the trace fossil Schaubcylindrichnus coronus Frey and Howard, 1981. The documentation of this bundled trace fossil is important because it is the first report of this ichnotaxon from Jamaica and indeed the Caribbean region. As a corollary it therefore adds to the geographical distribution of the trace fossil, and it is the first record that extends its palaeoenvironmental range to a deep-water setting.