Blue Mountain Inlier (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.1° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 71.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. K. Donovan. 1993. Jamaican Cretaceous Echinoidea. Geological Society of America Memoir 182:93-103 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
? Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin