Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Parent taxon: Cavellinidae according to A. Chitnarin 2017
See also Crasquin 2008, Crasquin-Soleau 1999, Hoare and Mapes 2000 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bektasia, Birdsallela, Chapmanites, Menoeidina, Neckajatia, Paracavellina, Platychilella, Recytellinae, Sulcella, Tetratylus, Ussuricavininae, Voronina
Subtaxa: Cavellina alpina Cavellina arcuata Cavellina bellerophonella Cavellina benniei Cavellina boomeri Cavellina chasensis 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
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Triassic of Iran (3), Italy (3), Turkey (1)
• Permian of Azerbaijan (7), China (43), Greece (1), Hungary (4), Iran (21), Israel (7), Italy (4), Japan (2), Lithuania (7), Oman (39), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Thailand (4), 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 (48: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)
• Devonian of China (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (6), United States (4: Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
• Silurian of Germany (2), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 266 collections including 342 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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