Cluffs, Amphistegina bed: Late Pleistocene, Barbados
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Majidae
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Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus
(Milne-Edwards 1832)
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Geography
| Country: | Barbados |
| Coordinates: | 13.3° North, 59.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Coral Rock | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Base of Coral Rock, Amphistegina Bed. Said to be "Pliocene Coral Rock" but this is based on Trechmann's assumption that the lowest deposits were Pliocene. The lowest terrace is now known to be late Pleistocene (MIS 5), around 125 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: | 185884 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-05-22 23:50:54 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-05-22 23:50:54 |
| 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] |