Shubuta Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Mississippi (32.0° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Jackson Group, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Blue clay from water's edge

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collected by R B Grigsby

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: H. V. Howe and J. Chambers. 1935. Louisiana Jackson Eocene Ostracoda. Geological Bulletin 5 [M. Fernandes Martins/M. Fernandes Martins/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192002: authorized by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins, entered by Maria Joao Fernandes Martins on 27.02.2018, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris ? gibsonensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris franquesi Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Cytheridea montgomeryensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha jacksonensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Eocytheropteron spurgeonae Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Cytheropteron montgomeryensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Buntonia shubutaensis n. sp. Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Cythereis ? jacksonensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Cythereis montgomeryensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Cythereis florienensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Cythereis yazooensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Cythereis hysonensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Brachycythere watervalleyensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
Xestoleberis sarsi Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
"Cythereis ? israelskyi" = Pyricythereis israelskyi
"Cythereis ? israelskyi" = Pyricythereis israelskyi Howe and Law 1936 ostracod
var morsei
 Platycopida -
Cytherelloidea danvillensis Howe 1934 ostracod
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus protuberans n. sp. Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar