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 ==== Ostracods ====
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   * Bivalved Crustacea (related to the modern barnacle but are not attached to any substrate), free swimming but mainly benthonic, very rarely planktonic
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   * biostratigraphically significant in particular areas/intervals but subordinate to other fossil groups and therefore has relatively few practicing specialists
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+//Left: An SEM photo of a recent ostracod. The carapace (shell) is usually separated from its partner on fossilisation. The animal itself is around 0.5mm in length. Right: Ostracods living on marine algae. The algae provides a “home” while the ostracods excrete nutrients for the algae.//