Sugar Loaf, bed 31c (Pleistocene of Netherlands Antilles)

Where: Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles (17.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Wall Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, yellow packstone

• Dark-spotted yellow limestone (partly coquina) with molluscs, calcareous algae, fragments of echinids and Amphistegina. Volcanic fragments and magnetite.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Westermann, Kiel in 1958

Primary reference: J. H. Westermann and H. Kiel. 1961. The geology of Saba and St. Eustatius, with notes on the geology of St. Kitts, Nevis and Montserrat (Lesser Antilles). Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen 24:1-175 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209791: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Paraster eustatii n. sp.
Paraster eustatii n. sp. Engel 1961 heart urchin
From 31a or 31c
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia michelini
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Isophyllia sinuosa
Isophyllia sinuosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral