Ostracod
Object Details
- Description
- This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
- Geologic Age
- Cenozoic - Paleogene - Paleocene
- Notes
- Left side of the outer carapace, or shell, of a fossil adult male ostracod, approximately 0.63 mm long. The fine lines etched across the surface are the results of an organism, like a sponge, damaging the shell after the ostracod died. This species is extinct. Written by Kate Dzikiewicz.
- Number of objects in this record
- 1
- Record Last Modified
- 20 Nov 2018
- Stratigraphy
- Naheola Formation
- Collection Date
- 2016
- USNM Number
- EO401771
- Collector
- G. Hunt
- Discipline
- Paleobiology
- Region
- US Southeast (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY)
- Object Type
- Education and Outreach collections
- Collecting Locality
- Creek near the town, North America, United States, Alabama, Wilcox County
- Scientific Name
- Hermanites bassleri
- See more items in
- Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
- Taxonomy
- Animalia, Arthropoda, Crustacea, Ostracoda, Hemicytheridae
- Topic
- Education & Outreach
- Record ID
- nmnheducation_13458362
