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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Echinoidea | |
? Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin |