Holetown, Oistins, distal reef-front (Pleistocene of Barbados)

Also known as Reef 4065

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Last Interglacial Terrace (= Rendezvous Hill Terrace); ~129 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• distal reef-front (coral head zone of Mesolella)
• head-coral framestone, matrix is a poorly stored lime-mud-rich floatstone to rudstone with a burrowed fabric

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Blanchon and A. Eisenhauer. 2001. Multi-stage reef development on Barbados during the Last Interglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 20:1093-1112 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88831: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.04.2009, edited by Keenan Hassell

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
"Stephanocoenia michelinii" = Stephanocoenia intersepta
"Stephanocoenia michelinii" = Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea, Montastrea cavernosa
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp., Colpophyllia sp., "Isophyllastrea rigida" = Isophyllia rigida
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Colpophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Isophyllastrea rigida" = Isophyllia rigida Dana 1848 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930