1. His research focused on researching marine invertebrates such as ostracod crustacea. 2. Only one species of ostracods has been described so far. 3. They close with lacustrine limestones containing stromatolites, charophytes, and ostracods . 4. Ostracods , copepods, and the larvae of chironomids provide seasonal nutrition.5. Juveniles feed on phytoplankton like diatoms and small zooplankton including cladocerans and ostracods . 6. Ostracods were documented by Kesling and Peterson in 1958.7. Ostracods were preserved in what is now Frederick County.8. During the Paleocene epoch, Scott County was home to foraminiferans and ostracods . 9. Ostracods remained common in the Tertiary seas of Texas.10. The freshwater environments were inhabited by molluscs and ostracods .