Where: Barbados (13.1° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 59.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coral Rock Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Based on elevation, likely from the T-11 or T-12 terrace of southern Barbados, dated to MIS 11 (or perhaps MIS 9), around 300-400 ka in Schellmann & Radtke (2004).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185882: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Mithrax (Mithrax) hemphilli" = Mithrax hemphilli, "Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus" = Mithrax verrucosus, "Mithrax (Mithrax) caribbaeus" = Mithrax hispidus, "Mithrax (Mithrax) spinosissimus" = Maguimithrax spinosissimus
"Mithrax (Mithrax) hemphilli" = Mithrax hemphilli Rathbun 1892 spider crab
"Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus" = Mithrax verrucosus Milne-Edwards 1832 spider crab
"Mithrax (Mithrax) caribbaeus" = Mithrax hispidus Herbst 1790 spider crab
"Mithrax (Mithrax) spinosissimus" = Maguimithrax spinosissimus Lamarck 1818 spider crab | |
"Portunus vocans" = Laleonectes vocans, "Portunus gibbesii" = Achelous gibbesii
"Portunus vocans" = Laleonectes vocans Milne-Edwards 1878 swimming crab
"Portunus gibbesii" = Achelous gibbesii Stimpson 1862 swimming crab |