Luprisca
{{Short description|Extinct species of seed shrimp}}
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{{Taxobox
| fossil_range = Ordovician, {{Fossil range|450}}
| image = Luprisca incuba.png
| image_caption = Fossil specimen
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| subphylum = Crustacea
| classis = Ostracoda
| ordo = Myodocopida
| familia =
| genus = Luprisca
| genus_authority = Siveter et al., 2014
| species = L. incuba
| binomial = Luprisca incuba
| binomial_authority = 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/fossil-discovery-unearths-nursery-in-the-sea-1.2572886|title=Fossil discovery unearths 'nursery in the sea' - Technology & Science - CBC News|publisher=cbc.ca|accessdate=2014-03-15}}
Etymology
The genus and species name were named after Lucina, the goddess of childbirth in Roman mythology, and incuba, implying the mother was incubating her eggs.
Description
Habitat and behavior
This species was discovered in the mudstone rocks from New York State, from a rock layer called the Lorraine Group. The discovery was said to be the earliest evidence for parental care in the fossils of ostracod. Although some reported this discovery as "oldest parenting of fossil record",{{Cite web |date=2014-03-25 |title=Researchers uncover oldest sign of parenting in Earth's fossil record |url=http://news.ku.edu/2014/03/25/researchers-uncover-oldest-sign-parenting-earths-fossil-record |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=The University of Kansas |language=en}} however some Cambrian fossil records with brood care, like Waptia are known.{{Cite journal |last1=Caron |first1=Jean-Bernard |last2=Vannier |first2=Jean |date=2016-01-11 |title=Waptia and the Diversification of Brood Care in Early Arthropods |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215013676 |journal=Current Biology |language=en |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=69–74 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.006 |pmid=26711492 |s2cid=10182506 |issn=0960-9822|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}
“The mother kept the eggs and the hatchlings in brooding pouches within her body until the young ones were big enough to go out on their own,” David Siveter, professor of geology at the University of Leicester {{cite web|url=http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geology/people/siveter-dj|title=Professor David Siveter — University of Leicester|publisher=www2.le.ac.uk|accessdate=2014-03-15}} in the UK who led the study, told The Telegraph India. A research paper by Siveter and his colleagues describing the ostracod fossils was published in the journal Current Biology.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.040| title = Exceptionally Preserved 450-Million-Year-Old Ordovician Ostracods with Brood Care| journal = Current Biology| year = 2014| last1 = Siveter| first1 = David J.| last2 = Tanaka| first2 = Gengo| last3 = Farrell| first3 = Úna C.| last4 = Martin| first4 = Markus J.| last5 = Siveter| first5 = Derek J.| last6 = Briggs| first6 = Derek E.G.| volume=24| issue = 7| pages=801–806| pmid=24631241| doi-access = free}}
References
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Category:Ordovician arthropods
Category:Prehistoric ostracods
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2014
Category:Fossils of the United States