Where: Barbados (13.1° N, 59.5° W: paleocoordinates 13.7° N, 59.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coral Rock Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Based on elevation, likely from the T-5b terrace, dated around 123 ka in Schellmann & Radtke (2004). Listed as "Pliocene Coral Rock" by Collins & Morris, following Trechmann, but the lowest terrace is now known to be Pleistocene.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins and S. F. Morris. 1976. Tertiary and Pleistocene crabs from Barbados and Trinidad. Palaeontology 19(1):107-131 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185881: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Herbstia exserta n. sp.
Herbstia exserta n. sp. Collins and Morris 1976 spider crab | |
"Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus" = Mithrax verrucosus, "Mithrax (Mithrax) hispidus" = Mithrax hispidus, "Mithrax (Mithrax) caribbaeus" = Mithrax hispidus, "Mithrax (Mithrax) spinosissimus" = Maguimithrax spinosissimus, "Mithrax (Mithraculus) ruber" = Teleophrys ruber
"Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus" = Mithrax verrucosus Milne-Edwards 1832 spider crab
"Mithrax (Mithrax) caribbaeus" = Mithrax hispidus Herbst 1790 spider crab
"Mithrax (Mithrax) spinosissimus" = Maguimithrax spinosissimus Lamarck 1818 spider crab
"Mithrax (Mithraculus) ruber" = Teleophrys ruber Stimpson 1871 red coral crab | |
Carpilius corallinus Herbst 1783 crab |