Holocene ostracods (Crustacea) from a whale-fall excavation site from the Chao Phraya delta, Central Thailand

Late Holocene ostracods were recovered from marine sediments of the Chao Phraya delta at a whale-fall excavation site located fifteen kilometers on land in Am Pang Subdistrict, Ban Paew District, Samut Sakhon Province, north Gulf Thailand. Thirteen species belonging to seven genera are identified. The deposition environment succession is for first time characterized. ostracod assemblages suggest that entire associated with deposited shallow such as estuary, bay, inner shelf, subtidal, under less than 20 meters water-depth, brackish normal salinity high mud content and turbidity, muddy substrate. This analysis an important step toward in-depth study modern fossil shallow-water whale-falls.