Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Parent taxon: Cavellinoidea according to T. Kolar-Jurkovšek et al. 2024
See also Abushik and Evdokimova 2016, Chitnarin 2017, Crasquin 2008, Liebau 2005 and Zazzali et al. 2015
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Bektasia Birdsallela Cavellina Chapmanites Invisibila Menoeidina Neckajatia Paracavellina Platychilella Recytellinae Scaldianella Sulcella Tetratylus Thlipsobellum Ussuricavininae Voronina
Type: Cavellina
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Triassic of Canada (7: Yukon), Hungary (1), Iran (10), Israel (10), Italy (7), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Türkiye (2), United States (6: Alaska)
• Permian of Azerbaijan (7), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (49), Greece (6), Hungary (8), Iran (21), Israel (7), Italy (8), Japan (2), Lithuania (7), Oman (41), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (4), Serbia (5), Slovenia (7), Thailand (11), Türkiye (2), United States (17: Kansas, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (2)
• Carboniferous of Canada (3: Alberta), China (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (54: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)
• Devonian of China (3), Czechia (1), France (3), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (6), United States (15: Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
• Silurian of Estonia (1), Germany (4), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (11)
• Arenig of China (1)
Total: 382 collections including 541 occurrences