Where: Veracruz, Mexico (21.5° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 92.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Huasteca Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• the ostracods have the "Vicksburg Oligocene sediments as their type localities"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collected by J. Álvarez

• Lousiana State University collection

Primary reference: L. A. Laurencich. 1969. Some Ostracoda from the Alazán Formation, Mexico. Micropaleontology 15(4):493-503 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94166: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.02.2010

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