| Luprisca Temporal range: Ordovician,
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| Genus: | Luprisca Siveter et al., 2014
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| Species: | L. incuba
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Luprisca incuba is an extinct species of ostracod crustacean.[1] 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.[2]
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