Pauline (ostracod)

Pauline
Temporal range: Telychian–Wenlock
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Myodocopida
Family: Cylindroleberididae
Genus: Pauline
Siveter et al., 2013
Species

Pauline avibella Siveter et al., 2013
Pauline nivisis Perrier et al., 2014

Pauline is a fossil genus of ostracods from the Silurian. Genus contains two species: Pauline avibella found in 425-million-year-old rocks in the Herefordshire Lagerstätte in England near the Welsh Border[1] and Pauline nivisis, known from the Lower Silurian (upper Telychian) Pentamerus Bjerge Formation of north Greenland.[2]

References

  1. David J. Siveter, Derek E. G. Briggs, Mark D. Sutton & Sarah C. Joomun (2013). "A Silurian myodocope with preserved soft-parts: cautioning the interpretation of the shell-based ostracod record". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280 (1752). doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2664.
  2. Vincent Perrier, David J. Siveter, Mark Williams and Philip D. Lane (2014). "An Early Silurian 'Herefordshire' myodocope ostracod from Greenland and its palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical significance". Geological Magazine. 151 (4): 591–599. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000642.
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