Explore: Fossil Ostracoda

Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 33,000 species (only 13,000 of which are

family Cypridinidae, and among the most well-known members of the class Ostracoda (together with Vargula hilgendorfii). Its members are extremely large

"Phylotranscriptomics to bring the understudied into the fold: monophyletic ostracoda, fossil placement, and pancrustacean phylogeny". Molecular Biology and Evolution

micropaleontology research in China and the first Chinese scholar to work on Ostracoda fossils. She is also noted for her major contributions to the oil and gas

Euthycarcinoidea † Thylacocephala? † Myriapoda Pancrustacea Oligostraca Ostracoda Mystacocarida Ichthyostraca Multicrustacea Cyclida † Thecostraca Tantulocarida

Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 35:

bears Crussolum fossils, and possible scutigeromorph head material. Rhyniognatha, which was once thought to be the oldest insect fossil, is also found

implies a fused cephalon (head) and thorax, there is currently neither fossil nor embryological evidence that arachnids ever had a separate thorax-like

characteristic fossil taxa. An outline microfaunal zonal scheme based on both foraminifera and ostracoda was compiled by M. B. Hart (1972). Earlier fossil life

Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 35: