Biostratigraphy.com, LLC is a Dallas-based consulting company, formed after the BPAmoco-Arco merger, that provides big company biostratigraphy services to any size company. Through an extensive worldwide network of affiliated experts, we can select the best expert, or team of experts, to meet your needs. Affiliates include paleontological experts from around the world: Houston, Dallas, Alaska, Florida, Canada, Trinidad, Venezuela, UK, France, Indonesia and more.

Custom software and databases, developed over the last 18 years, allow 3 to 5 times higher age resolution than normal for data collected to our specifications. One database has over one million age citations for fossil occurrences.

Re-studying existing biostratigraphic data sets with these tools often yields 2 to 3 times higher age resolution.

Depositional systems (paleoenvironments) are interpreted within age constrained intervals. For Tertiary age sediments, depositional systems are defined using transfer functions from modern analogs; for the pre-Tertiary, multivariate analyses (PCA, factor and cluster analyses) are used to extract environmental groupings that define depositional systems.

We have successfully applied these methods to exploration around the world, especially in West Africa. We have integrated and interpreted stratigraphic data extensively in: Alaska, Algeria, Morocco, East Africa (Mozambique), West Africa (Gabon, Ghana, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea), Bolivia, Colombia, China (Songliao Basin, South China Sea), CIS (Sakhalin Island), Ecuador, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Kazakhstan, Korea, Myanmar, Peru, Philippines (Sulu Sea), Oman, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey (Black Sea), Venezuela, and Vietnam.

Recent or current projects (individual line items may represent multiple projects; multidiscipline typically means palynology, kerogen, foraminifera & nannofossils)

Alaska
• Late Cretaceous Palynology, Colville River, Alaska
• Tertiary Nonmarine Palynology, Kenai Peninsula, Cook Inlet, Alaska
• Tertiary Palynology Data Study, 84 Wells, Cook Inlet, Alaska
• Late Cretaceous Palynology, Denali and Aniakchak National Parks, Alaska
• Cretaceous Palynology, NPRA North Slope, Alaska
• Tertiary Palynology, South-Central, Holitna Alaska
• Late Miocene-Pliocene Palynology, Kenai Penisula Outcrops

GOM
• Neogene Palynology, Green Canyon, Deep water GOM
• Miocene - Early Cretaceous Palynology & Kerogen, Viosca Knoll, Deep water GOM
• Early K - Late Jurassic Palynology & Kerogen, Desoto Canyon, Deep water GOM
• Late K - Late Jurassic Palynology & Kerogen, Lloyd Ridge, Deep water GOM
• Tertiary Evaluation of used mud systems for paleontological contamination, GOM
• Eocene-Oligocene palynology, micropaleontology, nannofossils: High Island GOM
• Early Tertiary Palynology & Kerogen, Perdido Fold Belt, Deep water GOM
• Early Tertiary Palynology & Kerogen, Alaminos Canyon, Deep water GOM

Gulf Coast, Texas
• Oligocene Hackberry Palynology, Orange County, Texas
• Early Tertiary Foram & Nannofossil biostratigraphy, South Texas, Rowena Deep

Gulf Coast, East Texas
• Late Jurassic Palynology & Kerogen, Bossier Shale, Leon-Freestone Co., Texas
• Late Jurassic Palynology & Kerogen, Bossier/Cotton Valley, Robertson Co., Texas
• Late Jurassic Palynology & Kerogen, Cotton Valley, Harrison Co., Texas

Mid-continent, Arkansas
• Late Mississippian Palynology & Kerogen, Fayetteville Shale, Arkansas
• Vitrinite Reflectance & Kerogen, Fayetteville Shale, Arkansas

Mid-continent, Mississippi
• Penn-Miss Palynology & Kerogen, Black Warrior Basin, Mississippi

Mid-continent, Oklahoma
• Miss/Penn Palynology & Kerogen, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma
• Pennsylvanian Palynology & Kerogen, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma
• Mississippian Palynology & Kerogen, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma
• Latest Chesterian-Early Morrowan Palynology & Kerogen, Arkoma Basin, OK

Mid-continent, West Texas
• Late Mississippian Palynology & Kerogen, Brewster Co., West Texas

Nevada Gold Districts
• Early Paleozoic Conodont, Radiolaria and Palynology, Nevada Gold Mining Districts
• Cambrian Trilobite biostratigraphy, Nevada Gold Mining Districts
• Ordovician-Silurian Graptolite biostratigraphy, Nevada Gold Mining Districts

Pennsylvania
• Palynology of Legacy Sediments (1710 AD to Present) in Lancaster County, PA

Texas
•Identification of the source of sediment contamination using microfossils, Houston

Africa, Cameroon
• Neogene multidiscipline biostratigraphy, Ph77, Offshore Cameroon, West Africa
• Tertiary-Late K multidisciplinary multi-well biostratigraphy study, offshore Cameroon

Africa, Equatorial Guinea
• Neogene multidiscipline biostrat, Block O, Offshore Equatorial Guinea, W. Africa
• Neogene multidiscipline biostrat, Block I, Offshore Equatorial Guinea, W. Africa

Africa, Ghana
• Paleogene-E. K multidiscipline biostrat, Accra-Keta Basin Offshore Ghana, W. Africa

Africa, Morocco
• Jurassic multidiscipline biostratigraphy of outcrops from the Guercif, N. Morocco

Canada
• Early Cretaceous Palynology, eastern Western Interior Seaway, Manitoba
• Late K / Pleistocene Palynology, eastern Western Interior Seaway, Manitoba

China
• Tertiary Palynology, Tibet and Yunnan, China

Korea
• Late Tertiary Multi-well Biostratigraphic Framework, Ulleung Basin, Offshore Korea

Russia, Sakhalin
• Tertiary Palynology, Sakhalin Island, Russia, CIS

South America, Bolivia
• Sub-Recent paleoenvironment reconstruction, Bolivian Lacustrine Stromatolites
- for NASA Mars Paleolake Analogs

South America, Brazil
• Late Cretaceous - Tertiary Micropaleontology, Offshore Brazil Cumuruxatiba Basin

South America, Ecuador
• Miocene Multidiscipline biostratigraphy, Amistad Gas Field, Guayaquil, Ecuador

South America, Guyana-Suriname
• Late Cretaceous - Tertiary Biostratigraphic Framework, Offshore Guyana-Suriname

South America, Peru
• Devonian Palynology, kerogen & vitrinite reflectance, Ucayali Basin, Peru
• Late Cretaceous - Tertiary Multi-well biostratigraphic study, Maranon Basin, Peru

South America, Suriname
• Late Cretaceous - Tertiary Biostratigraphic Framework, Offshore Suriname

South America, Trinidad
• Neogene evaluation of multi-well biostratigraphy, Deep water eastern Trinidad
• Pliocene multidisciplinary biostratigraphy, LRL, Columbus Basin, eastern Trinidad
• Tertiary multidisciplinary biostratigraphic data study, Angostura, Eastern Trinidad

South America, Venezuela
• Cretaceous/Tertiary Multi-well biostratigraphic study, Eastern Venezuela

Turkish Black Sea
• Neogene climate, salinity and paleoenvironment reconstruction, Western Black Sea

Comparisons:
Some of the biggest differences between Biostratigraphy.com, LLC and the large integrated consulting companies:

Our analysts are selected from the best available experts (worldwide), rather than a limited in-house staff.

There is less overhead and infrastructure to support, so more funds are directed to our analysts for higher quality data collection.

Our analysts are sub-contractors whose results are monitored and quality controlled by Biostratigraphy.com, LLC.

All analyses are performed independently. There is no communication between analysts until after the data collection phase is complete.

Multidiscipline studies benefit from multiple expert opinions. Each analyst offers their independent interpretation.

Interactive, iterative analysis of fossil occurrence data and age significance results in "cleaner" in-situ data and identification of valuable reworking events.

All fossils with age citations are used to define an age / depth profile, rather than only "index" fossils. Resulting age/depth charts define age intervals, rates of deposition, and placement and duration of unconformities.