Solomon Mountain (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

Where: Westmoreland, Jamaica (18.3° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 66.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Mountain Series Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Campanian(-?Maastrichtian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1899. Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34:227-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88331: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora jamaicaensis n. sp. Vaughan 1899 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acrosmiliidae
"Leptophyllia agassizi n. sp." = Acrosmilia agassizi
"Leptophyllia agassizi n. sp." = Acrosmilia agassizi Vaughan 1899 stony coral