Bissex Hill, Scotland Beds (Eocene of Barbados)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Scotland Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified conglomerate

• conglomerate band

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1934. Some fossil corals from the West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2975):71-110 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77045: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
? Trochocyathus sp., Asterosmilia cf. hilli
? Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Asterosmilia cf. hilli Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona sp.
Pavona sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
? Madracis sp., Madracis decactis
? Madracis sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral