Site 664 (Miocene to of North Atlantic)

Where: North Atlantic (0.6° N, 21.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 22.0° 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 201875: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Thaerocytheridae
Bradleya dictyon Brady 1880 ostracod
 Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Pelecocythere trinidadensis van den Bold 1960 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Abyssocythere atlantica Benson 1971 ostracod
Agrenocythere hazelae van den Bold 1946 ostracod
Legitimocythere acanthoderma Coles and Whatley 1989 ostracod
Henryhowella cf. asperrima Reuss 1850 ostracod
 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 - Hemicytheridae
Poseidonamicus major Benson 1972 ostracod
 Podocopida -
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod