Fore-reef, echinoidea, Whitehaven, Middle Coral Rock (Pleistocene of Barbados)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• -484000 to -127000 years BP

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: dissolution traces

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: S.K. Donovan. 2000. A Fore-reef echinoid fauna from the Pleistocene of Barbados. Caribbean Journal of Earth Science 36(3-4):314-320 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48021: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 10.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris bartletti pencil urchin
Cidaris (Tretocidaris) bartletti
 Camarodonta - Toxopneustidae
Lytechinus sp. Agassiz 1863 sea urchin
Lytechinus sp. cf. Lytechinus variegatus
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae