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1 June 2007 Rare Borings in Pleistocene Brachiopods from Jamaica and Barbados
Stephen K. Donovan, David A. T. Harper
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Abstract

Rare borings infest brachiopod shells in Pleistocene fore-reef deposits of Jamaica (86 shells 35 valves) and Barbados (53 shells 49 valves). Only one example of the sponge domicile Entobia isp. was found, infesting Tichosina sp. cf. T. bartletti (Dall) from Jamaica. Predatory drillholes, Oichnus ispp., were more common. One Terebratulina sp. cf. T. palmeri Cooper from Barbados was perforated by Oichnus paraboloides Bromley; two further Terebratulina and one Argyrotheca sp. ct. A. barrettiana (Davidson), all from Jamaica, were bored by Oichnus simplex Bromley. This is a similar order of magnitude of predatory boreholes as most post-Paleozoic brachiopod faunas reported in the literature. This is the first record of O. simplex from the Manchioneal Formation of Jamaica and the first record of O. paraboloides from Barbados.

2007 College of Arts and Sciences
Stephen K. Donovan and David A. T. Harper "Rare Borings in Pleistocene Brachiopods from Jamaica and Barbados," Caribbean Journal of Science 43(1), 59-64, (1 June 2007). https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v43i1.a5
Published: 1 June 2007
KEYWORDS
Barbados
Entobia
Jamaica
Oichnus
Pleistocene
predation
trace fossils
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