B2, Cluffs Bay: Middle Pleistocene, Barbados
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Terebratulidae
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Geography
| Country: | Barbados |
| Coordinates: | 13.3° North, 59.6° 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: Middle Coral Rock (484,000-127,000 years old; Poole & Barker, 1983) that rests unconformably on the Tertiary Oceanic Group. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | deep subtidal shelf |
| Geology comments: Trechmann (1937) published a measured lithological section, and listed a fauna of benthic molluscs, pteropods and brachiopods from this locality that is much less diverse than that from Whitehaven; it is unclear whether this is an artefact of the easier access at the latter locality. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 82816 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Girndt |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-02 02:00:16 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-02 02:00:16 |
| 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] |