ostracod

An ostracod genus, Bennelongia has been named after him in 1981.

Ostracod comes from the Greek óstrakon meaning shell or tile.

His research focused on researching marine invertebrates such as ostracod crustacea.

Analysis of Ostracod shells in sediment columns show the changes brought about by farming and habitation activities.

Liocypris grandis is a species of ostracod which was long presumed extinct.

The ostracod Sclerocypris zelaznyi was named after him.

The diet may include insects, mainly larvae; snails, and Ostracod crustaceans.

Limnocythere is a genus of ostracod crustacean in the family Limnocytheridae.

In the marine environment this has only been well-documented in certain small ostracod crustaceans, but may be quite common.

The Ostracod Limestone is a Mesozoic geologic formation.

The body of an ostracod is encased by two valves, superficially resembling the shell of a clam.

Most of the fossil examples of ostracod come from the preserved carapaces, or feeding appendages that are used by the animal.

Carbonita is an extinct genus of nonmarine ostracod crustacean that lived during the Carboniferous period.

Sineruga insolita is a fossil ostracod species which existed in what is now France during the Silurian period.

Kapcypridopsis barnardi is a species of ostracod crustacean in the family Cyprididae, subfamily Cypridopsinae.

Nasunaris flata is an extinct ostracod which existed in the United Kingdom during the Silurian period.

Pauline avibella is a fossil ostracod from the Silurian with unusually well preserved soft parts, including limbs, eyes, gills and alimentary system.

It was originally described in 1975 under the "ostracod"-like genus Mononotella, as Mononotella ovata.

Azygocypridina lowryi, colloquially known as the baked bean, is a species of ostracod crustacean or "seed shrimp" in the family Cypridinidae.

Azygocypridina is a genus of ostracods in the family Cypridinidae, which appears to be "the least derived living ostracod", having remained largely unchanged for 350 million years.

Little is known of the behaviour of this ostracod but when kept in an aquarium it tended to bury itself in the sediment when exposed to light.

Vargula hilgendorfii, sometimes called the sea-firefly, one of three bioluminescent species known in Japan as umi-hotaru, is a species of ostracod crustacean.

They discovered that the number of ostracod species increased to as many as 12 in warm periods and dropped to as few as 2 or 3 in cold ones.

Recent research shows that different groups became extinct at different times; for example, while difficult to date absolutely, ostracod and brachiopod extinctions were separated by 670 to 1170 thousand years.

Middle Pleistocene climate and hydrological environments at the Boxgrove hominin site (West Sussex, UK) from ostracod records.