Mint Spring Bayou, Vicksburg, Mississippi (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.1° N, 79.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Vicksburg Group, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

Primary reference: H. V. Howe. 1934. The Ostracode Genus Cytherelloidea in the Gulf Coast Tertiary. Journal of Paleontology 8(1):29-34 [M. Fernandes Martins/M. Fernandes Martins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191619: authorized by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins, entered by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins on 02.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida -
Cytherelloidea vicksburgensis n. sp. Howe 1934 ostracod