Halocypridina is a suborder of ostracodes. There are 201 species of Halocypridina, in 60 genera and 3 families. This suborder has been around since the lopingian epoch.
Definition: Component found in mineralized skeletal tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular matrix is mineralized, and which functions in mechanical and structural support.)
Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
Definition: An eye that consists of a cluster of three or four pit eyes that form a single structural unit but are separated from one another by pigment layers
