Spa Estate (Eocene to of Barbados)

Where: Barbados (13.2° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 59.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Scotland Beds Formation, Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins and S. F. Morris. 1976. Tertiary and Pleistocene crabs from Barbados and Trinidad. Palaeontology 19(1):107-131 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185880: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2017

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Hexapodidae
"Pinnixa (Palaeopinnixa) perornata n. sp." = Palaeopinnixa perornata
"Pinnixa (Palaeopinnixa) perornata n. sp." = Palaeopinnixa perornata Collins and Morris 1976 crab
 Decapoda - Chasmocarcinidae
Falconoplax bicarinella n. sp. Collins and Morris 1976 crab