UGA Stratigraphy Lab

The data is in the strata

• Fossils and Strata
  of the Type Cincinnatian
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• Ostracoda

Aparchites

Aparchites
Drawing from Bassler and Kellett, 1934

Shell not exceeding 3 mm in length, equivalved, subovate or oblong; hinge straight, ventral edge thickened, often beveled or channeled; surface convex, mostly in the ventral half, smooth (Bassler and Kellett, 1934).

Species

Aparchites minutissimus (Hall, 1875)
Occurrence: Fulton, Economy, Southgate, McMicken, Mount Hope, Fairmount, Bellevue, Corryville, Mount Auburn, Arnheim, Waynesville, Liberty, Whitewater, Elkhorn
Reference: Dalvé, 1948; Bassler and Kellett, 1934
Originally named Leperditia (Isochilina) minutissima

Aparchites oblongus Ulrich, 1890
Occurrence: Arnheim
Reference: Dalvé, 1948; Bassler and Kellett, 1934

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