Site 667 (Miocene to of North Atlantic)

Where: North Atlantic (4.4° N, 18.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° N, 19.1° 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 201900: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Krithidae
Parakrithe elongata van den Bold 1960 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
Pelecocythere trinidadensis van den Bold 1960 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Rugocythereis horridus Whnlley and Coles 1987 ostracod
Henryhowella cf. asperrima Reuss 1850 ostracod
Abyssocythere atlantica Benson 1971 ostracod
Legitimocythere cf. acanthoderma Coles and Whatley 1989 ostracod
Agrenocythere hazelae van den Bold 1946 ostracod
Ambocythere cf. ramosa van den Bold 1965 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Krithe sp. Brady et al. 1874 ostracod
Krithe "sp. 1" Brady et al. 1874 ostracod
Krithe prolixa van den Bold 1966 ostracod
Krithe rex Dingle et al. 1990 ostracod
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
 Podocopida - Thaerocytheridae
Bradleya dictyon Brady 1880 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod