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Pauline (ostracod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Order
  
Myodocopida

Scientific name
  
Pauline

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Class
  
Ostracoda

Family
  
Cylindroleberididae

Rank
  
Genus

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

Pauline (ostracod) Wikipedia