Site 549 recovered a Lower Cretaceous succession which has been shown to include parts of the Barremian and Albian stages. Forty-four species of Ostracoda are illustrated and their stratigraphic distribution used to recognise three major facies units. An high diversity inner shelf facies earlier in the Barremian gives way to a low diversity, outer shelf facies, higher in the succession. The early Albian appears to indicate a return to an inner shelf fauna. The faunas recovered have been compared to similar faunas elsewhere in N. W. Europe.

X = present, - = absent.

Supplement to: Hart, Malcom B; Crittenden, S (1985): Early Cretaceous Ostracoda from the Goban Spur; D.S.D.P. Leg 80, Site 549. Cretaceous Research, 6(3), 219-233