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 | |
? Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Asterosmilia cf. hilli Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Pavona sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
? Madracis sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral |