Site 659 A and 659 B, near Cape Verde (Miocene to of North Atlantic)

Where: North Atlantic (16.7° N, 21.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 21.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian to Messinian (7.2 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; silty mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Guernet and M. Moullade. 1994. Late Miocene-early Pliocene ostracods in a deep oceanic environment, Central Atlantic. Revue de Micropaleontologie 37(4):257-274 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201874: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Krithe "sp. 1" Brady et al. 1874 ostracod
Krithe rex Dingle et al. 1990 ostracod
Krithe prolixa van den Bold 1966 ostracod
 Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Henryhowella cf. asperrima Reuss 1850 ostracod
Legitimocythere cf. acanthoderma Coles and Whatley 1989 ostracod
Ambocythere cf. ramosa van den Bold 1965 ostracod
Agrenocythere hazelae van den Bold 1946 ostracod
Rugocythereis horridus Whnlley and Coles 1987 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Poseidonamicus sp. Benson 1972 ostracod
Poseidonamicus major Benson 1972 ostracod
 Podocopida - Thaerocytheridae
Bradleya dictyon Brady 1880 ostracod
 Podocopida -