Fossil brachiopods from the Pleistocene of the Antilles David A.T. Harper & Stephen K. Donovan Harper, D.A.T. & Donovan, S.K. Fossil brachiopods from the Pleistocene of the Antilles. Scripta Geologica, 135: 213-239, 3 fi gs., 3 pls, 1 table. Leiden, November 2007. David A.T. Harper, Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copen- hagen K, Denmark (
[email protected]); Stephen K. Donovan, Department of Geology, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Postbus 9517, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands (donovan@naturalis. nnm.nl). Key words – Brachiopoda, Pleistocene, systematics, Jamaica, Barbados, Antilles. Pleistocene brachiopods are poorly known from the Antillean region, but are locally common in fore- reef deposits of Jamaica (lower Pleistocene Manchioneal Formation) and Barbados (Coral Rock). Of the four species known, two are new. Lacazella sp. cf. L. caribbeanensis Cooper, an encrusting thecideidean, is known from only three valves. Other species are terebratulides. Tichosina inconstanta sp. nov. is a large, ventribiconvex Tichosina species of elongate oval to tear-drop shaped outline, variably uniplicate with a pedicle foramen of moderate diameter. It differs from the similar Tichosina? bartletti (Dall) in having a larger pedicle foramen and a less-marked plication. Argyrotheca barrettiana (Davidson) is a medium to large, usually transverse Argyrotheca species, multicostellate with usually eight costae and costellae, in- creasing by intercalation up to 21 on the largest shell. The species was originally described from the Recent of the Caribbean. Terebratulina manchionealensis sp. nov. is a small, elongately oval to subtriangu- lar Terebratulina species with a ventral sulcus and subcarinate dorsal valve.