[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.

The fossil was preserved in pyrite and was examined using X-Ray and CT Scan techniques.

[4] “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 [5] 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.