Pauline (crustacean)
(Redirected from Pauline (genus))
| Pauline Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
Scientific 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[1] and Pauline nivisis, known from the Lower Silurian (upper Telychian) Pentamerus Bjerge Formation of north Greenland.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
 | This prehistoric crustacean-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |