Decapod, stomatopod and cirripede Crustacea from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed, St Thomas parish, Jamaica

Twenty eight decapods have been identified from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed, Bowden Formation of southeast Jamaica. They consist mostly of dactyli and fixed fingers, and represent the greatest known concentration of Pliocene crustaceans recorded from any one locality within the Caribbean. A stomatopod, which consists of a partial raptorial claw, and three barnacle genera, Arcoscalpellum, Conopea, and Ceratoconcha, are also present in this deposit. The stomatopod and Conopea represent the first known occurrence of these taxa in the Caribbean fossil record.