B2, Cluffs Bay (Pleistocene of Barbados)

Where: Barbados (13.3° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 59.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Coral Rock Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Coral Rock (484,000-127,000 years old; Poole & Barker, 1983) that rests unconformably on the Tertiary Oceanic Group.

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone

• Trechmann (1937) published a measured lithological section, and listed a fauna of benthic molluscs, pteropods and brachiopods from this locality that is much less diverse than that from Whitehaven; it is unclear whether this is an artefact of the easier access at the latter locality.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. A. T. Harper and S. K. Donovan. 2007. Fossil brachiopods from the Pleistocene of the Antilles. Scripta Geologica 135:213-239 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82816: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 02.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Tichosina inconstanta
Tichosina inconstanta Harper and Donovan 2007