Blake Nose, site 390 (Eocene of North Atlantic)

Where: North Atlantic (30.2° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 66.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Guernet. 1982. Contribution à l'étude des faunes abyssales : les Ostracodes paléogènes du Bassin des Bahamas, Atlantique Nord (DSDP, Leg 44). Revue de Micropaléontologie 25(1):40-56 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201903: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris sp. Brady 1880 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia "sp. 4" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Bythoceratina "sp. 2" Hornibrook 1952 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Eucythere sp. Brady 1868 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Brachycythere sp. Alexander 1933 ostracod
? Orionina sp. ostracod
? Trachyleberidea sp. Bowen 1953 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
Eucytherura sp. ostracod
 Podocopida - Sigilliidae
Cardobairdia sp. van den Bold 1960 ostracod
 Podocopida - Macrocyprididae
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris "sp. 1" Sars 1866 ostracod