B1, Skeete’s Bay, Whitehaven: Middle Pleistocene, Barbados

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca barrettiana (Davidson 1866)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Barbados
Coordinates: 13.2° North, 59.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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:Middle Coral Rock
Stratigraphy comments: Basal Middle Coral Rock (484,000-127,000 years old; Poole & Barker, 1983) that rests unconformably on the Tertiary Oceanic Group; the basal position suggests a mid Pleistocene age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Geology comments: Donovan (2000): "The associated fauna includes benthic foraminifers, bryozoans, terebratulid brachiopods which suggests deposition in 100+ m water depth; (Harper and Donovan, 1998), benthic molluscs(Trechmann, 1937), astropectinid asteroid marginal ossicles, the boring Entobia isp. in some molluscs, and rarer pteropods, crab claws, and arcoscalpellid barnacle plates... interpreted as a deeper water (perhaps ±100 m) fore-reef deposit."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: collected in August 1997 and June 2002,from well-lithified float blocks on the beach and also from the lowermost 2 m of the section
Metadata
Database number:82815
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Girndt
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-08-02 01:36:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-08-02 01:36:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
27828. 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]