Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Full reference: B. Kellett. 1935. Ostracodes of the Upper Pennsylvanian and the Lower Permian strata of Kanss: III. Bairdiidae (concluded), Cytherellidae, Cypridinidae, Entomoconchidae, Cytheridae, and Cypridae. Journal of Paleontology 9(2):132-166
Belongs to Cavellina according to B. Kellett 1935
See also Melnyk and Maddocks 1988
Sister taxa: Cavellina alpina, Cavellina arcuata, Cavellina bellerophonella, Cavellina benniei, Cavellina boomeri, Cavellina daubeana, Cavellina edmistonae, Cavellina ellipticalis, Cavellina fittsi, Cavellina fosteri, Cavellina gerryi, Cavellina glandella, Cavellina hairapetiani, Cavellina hashimotoi, Cavellina huqfensis, Cavellina incurvescens, Cavellina lata, Cavellina lirata, Cavellina longa, Cavellina maanshanensis, Cavellina marmorea, Cavellina mocki, Cavellina mui, Cavellina nebrascensis, Cavellina nesenensis, Cavellina nipponica, Cavellina ovoidiformis, Cavellina postunica, Cavellina postvisnyoensis, Cavellina pulchella, Cavellina rotunda, Cavellina savagei, Cavellina sphenoformis, Cavellina subovata, Cavellina subunica, Cavellina symmetrica, Cavellina triassica, Cavellina unioniformis, Cavellina visnyoensis, Cavellina xiaobaensis
Type specimen: USNM 90136. Its type locality is District School, Cottonwood Falls, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate limestone in the Chase Formation of Kansas.
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at District School, Cottonwood Falls
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