Pauline (genus)
| Pauline Temporal range: Telychian–Wenlock | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Ostracoda |
| Order: | Myodocopida |
| Family: | Cylindroleberididae |
| Genus: | Pauline Siveter et al., 2013 |
| Species | |
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Pauline avibella Siveter et al., 2013 | |
Pauline is a fossil ostracod genus 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.