Spa Estate: Early Eocene - Middle Eocene, Barbados
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Chasmocarcinidae
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Hexapodidae
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Geography
| Country: | Barbados |
| Coordinates: | 13.2° North, 59.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.3° North, 52.0° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 - Cenozoic 2-3 |
| Key time interval: | Early Eocene - Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56 - 37.71 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Scotland Beds |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
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: | 185880 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-05-22 23:03:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-05-22 23:03:45 |
| 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] |