Highgate, 104 m elevation: Middle Pleistocene, Barbados

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Majidae
Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus (Milne-Edwards 1832)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Portunus vocans (Milne-Edwards 1878)
see common names

Geography
Country:Barbados
Coordinates: 13.1° North, 59.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Coral Rock
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Based on elevation, likely from the T-11 or T-12 terrace of southern Barbados, dated to MIS 11 (or perhaps MIS 9), around 300-400 ka in Schellmann & Radtke (2004).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:185882
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-05-22 23:40:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-05-22 23:40:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
55598.decapod 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]