Holetown, Oistins, proximal back-reef (Pleistocene of Barbados)

Also known as Reef 3820

Where: Barbados (13.2° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 59.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Last Interglacial Terrace (= Rendezvous Hill Terrace); ~129 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• proximal back-reef (rear zone of Mesolella)
• branch-coral framestone, matrix is a shelly packstone to floatstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Blanchon and A. Eisenhauer. 2001. Multi-stage reef development on Barbados during the Last Interglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 20:1093-1112 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88865: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Eusmilia fastigiata Pallas 1766 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch