An exceptionally preserved myodocopid ostracod from the Silurian of Herefordshire, UK.

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An exceptionally preserved new ostracod crustacean from the Silurian of Herefordshire, UK, represents only the third fully documented Palaeozoic ostracod with soft-part preservation. Appendages, gills, gut system, lateral compound eyes and even a medial eye with a Bellonci organ are preserved, allowing assignment of the fossil to a new genus and species of cylindroleberidid myodocope (Myodocopida, Cylindroleberididae). The Bellonci organ is recorded for the first time in fossil ostracods. The...

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Authors: Siveter, D; Briggs, D; Siveter, D; Sutton, MD

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
• Volume: 277
• Issue: 1687
• Pages: 1539-1544
• Publication date: 2010-05-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2122
• EISSN: 1471-2954
• ISSN: 0962-8452
• Language: English
• Keywords: Animals; Fossils; Paleontology; Species Specificity; Biological Evolution; Time; Crustacea; Great Britain; Gills