Matthews Landing on the Alabama River, Alabama (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Alabama (32.0° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Midway Group, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• the Midway Eocene Matthews Landing on the Alabama River, Alabama.

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

Primary reference: H. V. Howe. 1934. The Ostracode Genus Cytherelloidea in the Gulf Coast Tertiary. Journal of Paleontology 8(1):29-34 [M. Fernandes Martins/M. Fernandes Martins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191556: authorized by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins, entered by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins on 01.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

• Cytherelloidea tombigbeensis delicata, Louisiana State Univ., Mus. No. 587
Ostracoda
 Platycopida -
Cytherelloidea tombigbeensis Howe 1934 ostracod
n. var. delicata