A Fore-reef Echinoid Fauna from the Pleistocene of Barbados

摘要

Pleistocene raised reefs cover 90 percent to the surface of Barbados, yet they have yield only rare fossil echinoids. The most diverse echinoid fauna from the island comes form the base of the Middle Coral Rock (probably middle Pleistocene) at Skeete's Bay, Whitehaven, parish of St. Philip, from an interval Interpreted as a deeper water (perhaps ±100 m) fore-reef deposit.