Larger Foraminifera, indicating correlation with upper Paleocene or lower Eocene deposits of Barbados and Trinidad, have been found at one locality (Loiza) in the deformed older rocks of Puerto Rico. These rocks have hitherto been widely accepted as being exclusively Late Cretaceous in age. At another locality (Corozal), smaller Foraminifera indicative of probable Paleocene age and a fauna of minute mollusks and crinoid columnals of uncertain age (more probably Tertiary than Late Cretaceous) have been found in the same sequence of formations. A thick section of beds in the San Juan area is thought on lithologic grounds to be correlative with the Corozal and Loiza Lower Tertiary. All recognized Lower Tertiary rocks give evidence of active volcanism. There is no readily app rent lithologic criterion to differentiate the Lower Tertiary rocks from the Upper Cretaceous on an island-wide basis. At Loiza the Lower Tertiary is conformable with the inferred Upper Cretaceous. The major Antillean crustal revolution in Puerto Rico is therefore demonstrated to be early Tertiary in age.