Spring Mount [Yellow Limestone Gp] (Eocene of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yellow Limestone Group, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1934. Some fossil corals from the West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2975):71-110 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77033: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.12.2007, edited by Lerin Baltzly

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Dendracis cantabrigiensis Vaughan 1899 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia jamaicaensis n. sp. Wells 1934 stony coral
Astrocoenia dixae n. sp.1 Wells 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sawkinsi n. sp. Wells 1934 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia duncani n. sp.1 Wells 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
? Favia gregoryi n. sp.1 Wells 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
"Cyclolites thomasi n. sp." = Cunnolites tenuiradiata1
"Cyclolites thomasi n. sp." = Cunnolites tenuiradiata1 Fromentel 1863 stony coral
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa subplana2 Withers 1924 decapod
 Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
Xanthilites rathbunae2 Withers 1924 crab