Where: Barbados (13.1° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.8° N, 59.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coral Rock Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Based on elevation must come from the lowest terrace, late Pleistocene (MIS 5), around 125 ka in Schellmann & Radtke (2004).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
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 185886: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus" = Mithrax verrucosus
"Mithrax (Mithrax) verrucosus" = Mithrax verrucosus Milne-Edwards 1832 spider crab |