PBDB Collection

Little Stave Creek Ostracoda (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.5° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 79.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gosport Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• collection is from an "outcrop of the Gosport formation... about twenty feet thick"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, ferruginous, glauconitic, brown, green sandstone

• "coarse green glauconitic or brown ferruginous sand. Parts of it are very fossiliferous" but "the micro-fossils appear to be scarce" whereas molluscs occur in shellbeds

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by D. B. Blake, L. L. McCormick

• Louisiana State University collection

Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1950. Gosport Eocene Ostracoda from Little Stave Creek, Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 24(2):174-184 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94040: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
Carditida - Carditidae	"Venericardia alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata "Venericardia alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata Conrad 1833 clam
Ostracoda
Podocopida - Cytherettidae	Cytheretta alexanderi Cytheretta alexanderi Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Podocopida - Bythocytheridae	Monoceratina alexanderi Monoceratina alexanderi Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Podocopida - Xestoleberididae	Xestoleberis sp. Xestoleberis sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
Podocopida - Cytherideidae	Haplocytheridea goochi, Clithrocytheridea caldwellensis, "Cytherideis gosportensis n. sp." = Cushmanidea, "Cytherideis perforata n. sp." = Cushmanidea, "Cytherideis alta n. sp." = Cushmanidea, "Clithrocytheridea garretti" = Cytheridea garretti, "Clithrocytheridea grigsbyi" = Cytheridea grigsbyi, "Haplocytheridea montgomeryensis" = Cytheridea montgomeryensis Haplocytheridea goochi ostracod Clithrocytheridea caldwellensis ostracod "Cytherideis gosportensis n. sp." = Cushmanidea ostracod "Cytherideis perforata n. sp." = Cushmanidea ostracod "Cytherideis alta n. sp." = Cushmanidea ostracod "Clithrocytheridea garretti" = Cytheridea garretti Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod "Clithrocytheridea grigsbyi" = Cytheridea grigsbyi Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod "Haplocytheridea montgomeryensis" = Cytheridea montgomeryensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod
Podocopida - Cytheruridae	Paracytheridea belhavenensis, Cytheropteron variosum, Cytherura semireticulata n. sp., Cytherura ultra n. sp. Paracytheridea belhavenensis Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod Cytheropteron variosum ostracod Cytherura semireticulata n. sp. ostracod Cytherura ultra n. sp. ostracod
Podocopida - Trachyleberididae	Trachyleberis davidwhitei, Trachyleberis washburni, ? Cythereis collei, ? Cythereis gosportensis n. sp., ? Cythereis longicostata n. sp., Brachycythere martini Trachyleberis davidwhitei ostracod Trachyleberis washburni ostracod ? Cythereis collei ostracod ? Cythereis gosportensis n. sp. ostracod ? Cythereis longicostata n. sp. ostracod Brachycythere martini ostracod
Podocopida - Loxoconchidae	Loxoconcha stavensis n. sp., Loxoconcha clarkensis n. sp. Loxoconcha stavensis n. sp. ostracod Loxoconcha clarkensis n. sp. ostracod
Podocopida - Hemicytheridae	Triginglymus hyperochus n. gen. n. sp. Triginglymus hyperochus n. gen. n. sp. ostracod
Podocopida - Bairdiidae	Bairdia gosportensis n. sp., Bairdoppilata sp. Bairdia gosportensis n. sp. ostracod Bairdoppilata sp. ostracod
Platycopida - Cytherellidae	Cytherella sp. Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod
Echinoidea
Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae	Periarchus lyelli Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar