B4, Arawak cement quarry (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 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; lithified limestone

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 82818: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 02.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae