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Pauline (crustacean)

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Extinct genus of seed shrimps

Pauline
Temporal range: Telychian–Wenlock PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Myodocopida
Family: Cylindroleberididae
Genus: †Pauline
Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, Sutton & Joomun, 2012
Species

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 and Pauline nivisis, known from the Lower Silurian (upper Telychian) Pentamerus Bjerge Formation of north Greenland.

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): 20122664. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2664. PMC 3574317. PMID 23235709.
  2. Vincent Perrier; David J. Siveter; Mark Williams; Philip D. Lane (2014). "An Early Silurian 'Herefordshire' myodocope ostracod from Greenland and its palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical significance". Geological Magazine. 151 (4): 591–599. Bibcode:2014GeoM..151..591P. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000642. S2CID 131153708.
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