Pauline (ostracod)

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]

Pauline
Temporal range: Telychian–Wenlock
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Myodocopida
Family: Cylindroleberididae
Genus: †Pauline
Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, Sutton & Joomun, 2012
Species
  • †Pauline avibella Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, Sutton & Joomun, 2012
  • †Pauline nivisis Perrier, Siveter, Williams & Lane, 2014

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. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000642.


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