Ostracods

1. Ostracod

Ostracod shell with the two articulated valves in a skeletal wackestone of lacustrine depositional environment.

Thin section kindly provided by T. Geel, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

2. Ostracod

Skeletal wackestone to packstone with ostracods.

Thin section kindly provided by T. Geel, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

3. Ostracod

Sub-millimetre size ostracods in an interparticle cavity of a skeletal lithoclastic rudstone/packstone.

Thin section kindly provided by T. Geel, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

4. Ostracod

Porous skeletal grainstone containing ostracods from the Eocene Bassein Formation, Bombay High, offshore India.

Eocene, Bassein Formation, Bombay High, offshore India

5. Ostracod

Section of a recent ostracod from the Lagoa Salgado, Brazil.

Recent, Lagoa Salgado, Brazil