Keyser Hill Sample No. 4: Priabonian, Alabama
collected by P. R. Krutak, O. Brown, O. Buis, C. Jones 1947

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherettidae
Cytheretta alexanderi Howe and Chambers 1935
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Konarocythere spurgeonae
Cytheropteron montgomeryensis Howe and Chambers 1935
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Brachycythere mississippiensis
Brachycythere watervalleyensis Howe and Chambers 1935
Henryhowella florienensis
Trachyleberis montgomeryensis
"Archicythereis" yazooensis
Buntonia shubutaensis Howe and Chambers 1935
Actinocythereis gibsonensis
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Clithrocytheridea garretti (Howe and Chambers 1935)
original and current combination Cytheridea garretti
Clithrocytheridea grigsbyi (Howe and Chambers 1935)
original and current combination Cytheridea grigsbyi
Haplocytheridea montgomeryensis (Howe and Chambers 1935)
original and current combination Cytheridea montgomeryensis
Cushmanidea keyserensis
Cushmanidea papula
Cushmanidea serangodes
Clithrocytheridea caldwellensis
Clithrocytheridea shubutensis
Cyamocytheridea watervallensis
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha jacksonensis Howe and Chambers 1935
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Absonocytheropteron watervalleyensis
? Hermanites hysonensis
Triginglymus gnythophoreus
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Leguminocythereidae
Acuticythereis cocoaensis
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherelloidea cocoaensis
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Choctaw
Coordinates: 31.9° North, 88.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 80.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yazoo Member:Cocoa Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Eocene" (the Cocoa Sand is Priabonian)
the section is "about 20 feet thick" and the sample is from "66' above bridge near Water Valley"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,glauconitic,quartzose,shelly/skeletal,gray poorly lithified argillaceous not reported
Lithology description: "Sandstone; bluish-gray, fine-grained, soft, quartzose, angular, with clay cement, highly fossiliferous, trace of glauconite"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P. R. Krutak, O. Brown, O. Buis, C. Jones Collection dates:1947
Collection method comments: Lousiana State University collection
Metadata
Also known as:Water Valley
Database number:94156
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-02-10 10:55:00 Last modified:2010-02-10 12:56:37
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-10 10:55:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31999. P. R. Krutak. 1961. Jackson Eocene Ostracoda from the Cocoa Sand of Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 35(4):769-788 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]