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
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Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Planorbulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930 | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Meandrina meandrites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Montastraea cavernosa Linnaeus 1767 stony coral | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 |