Orange River Core 2: Burdigalian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Australileberis sp.
Pseudokeijella sp.
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Kuiperiana cf. angulata
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849
Ostracoda - Podocopida
Chrysocythere sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Macrocyprididae
Macrocypris sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
Australoecia cf. fulleri
Argilloecia cf. sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Kangarina cf. mucronata
Paracytheridea cf. culmen
Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866
Eucytherura sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha sp. Sars 1866
Palmoconcha cf. walvisridgensis
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
Xestoleberis sp. Sars 1866
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Idiocythere sp.
Trachyleberis sp.
Henryhowella sp. Puri 1957
Buntonia sp. Howe 1935
? Buntonia sp. Howe 1935
Ruggieria cf. furcilla
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Eucythere sp. Brady 1868
Parakrithella sp. Hanai 1959
Ostracoda - Podocopida
Coquimba sp.
Crenaleya sp.
? Crenaleya cf. apolegma
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Leguminocythereidae
Leguminocythereis cf. dinglei
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Ambostracon sp. Hazel 1962
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Paradoxostomatidae
? Cytherois sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Neocytherideidae
Neocytherideis cf. boomeri
Neocytherideis sp. Puri 1952
Ostracoda - Podocopida
Stigmatocythere cf. bornhardti
Haughtonileberis sp.
Haughtonileberis cf. radiata
Neocaudites cf. maccagnoi (Ciampo 1972)
original and current combination Falsocythere maccagnoi
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdoppilata sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:North Cape
Coordinates: 28.6° South, 16.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.4° South, 14.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:0 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Stratigraphy comments: Ocean core. Correlated to the Burdigalian (22.6–16.01 Ma).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,sandy mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Inner shelf-offshore bar sands and silts.
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:37487
Authorizer:W. Clyde Enterer:J. Finarelli
Modifier:J. Finarelli Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-03-15 12:49:48 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-15 12:49:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10031. R. V. Dingle, I. K. McMillan, S. Majoran and L. Bisset. 2001. Palaeo-oceanographical implications of Early-Middle Miocene subtropical ostracod faunas from the continental shelf of the SE Atlantic Ocean . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 173(1-2):43-60 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/P. Wagner]