- Ostracods (formally called Ostracoda) take their name from the Greek ‘ostrakon’, which means ‘a shell’, and refers to the bi-valved carapace that is characteristic of these tiny crustaceans, which resemble water fleas. They had probably evolved by the end of the Cambrian and true fossil ostracods are found in Ordovician rocks.www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/fossils-and-geological-time/ostracods/
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