Also known as Reef 896
Where: Antigua and Barbuda (17.7° N, 61.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 61.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Highlands Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified bindstone and lithified limestone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: M. Brasier and J. Donahue. 1985. Barbuda - an emerging reef and lagoon complex on the edge of the Lesser Antilles island arc. Journal of the Geological Society of London 142:1101-1117 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 198642: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 04.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Globothalamea | |
Eponides sp. Montfort 1808 | |
Acervulinidae indet. Schultze 1854 | |
Foraminifera | |
Amphistegina rotundata Cushman 1919 | |
Asterigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Globigerinoides cf. conglobatus, Globigerinoides ruber, Sphaeroidinella subdehiscens, Orbulina universa
Globigerinoides cf. conglobatus Brady 1879
Globigerinoides ruber d'Orbigny 1839
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny 1839 |