old Fort St. Stephens blusff on the tombigbee river, Alabama (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Alabama (31.1° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 82.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Vicksburg Group, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• 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 191694: authorized by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins, entered by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins on 09.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida -
Cytherelloidea alabamensis n. sp. Howe 1934 ostracod