Also known as Reef 3820
Where: Barbados (13.2° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 59.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Last Interglacial Terrace (= Rendezvous Hill Terrace); ~129 ka
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Blanchon and A. Eisenhauer. 2001. Multi-stage reef development on Barbados during the Last Interglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 20:1093-1112 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88865: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Eusmilia fastigiata Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch |