West coast of Barbados, Pleistocene, crusts of uniform composition (Pleistocene of Barbados)

Where: Barbados (13.2° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 59.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: W. Martindale. 1992. Calcified epibionts as palaeoecological tools: examples from the Recent and Pleistocene reefs of Barbados. Coral Reefs (11)167-177 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 148824: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Foraminifera
 Planorbulinacea - Planorbulinidae
Planorbulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
Hydrolithon sp. Foslie 1909
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Meandrina meandrites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea cavernosa Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835