Luprisca

Luprisca
Temporal range: Ordovician,
Fossil specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Myodocopida
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: †Luprisca
Siveter et al., 2014
Species:
†L. incuba
Binomial name
†Luprisca incuba
Siveter et al, 2014

Luprisca incuba is an extinct species of ostracod crustacean. It was described as a new species in 2014, following discovery and analysis of fossilized specimens in mudstone rocks from New York, United States. A team of researchers from the universities of Yale and Kansas, Oxford and the Japan Agency of Marine Science and Technology made the discovery.

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