Pauline (crustacean)

Pauline
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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

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.