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The Scotland Beds is a geologic formation in Barbados. It preserves
fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
of '' Falconoplax bicarinella'' and '' Palaeopinnixa perornata'', dating back to the
Early Eocene In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. It spans the time between , is preceded by the Thanetian Age (part of the Paleocene) and is followed by the Eocene Lutetian Age. The Ypresian i ...
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Geography of Barbados Barbados is a continental island in the North Atlantic Ocean and is located at 13°10' north of the equator, and 59°32' west of the Prime Meridian. As the easternmost isle of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, Barbados lies 160 kilometres ...
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Barbados


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Further reading


Caves and Karst of Barbados
Patricia N. Kambesis & Hans G. Machel * J. S. H. Collins and S. F. Morris. 1976. Tertiary and Pleistocene crabs from Barbados and Trinidad. Palaeontology 19(1):107-131 * J. W. Wells. 1934. Some fossil corals from the West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2975):71-110 Geologic formations of the Caribbean Geology of Barbados Paleogene Caribbean Conglomerate formations Shallow marine deposits Tidal deposits {{Barbados-stub