Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Alternative combination: Cytherella ovoidiformis
Full reference: B. H. Harlton. 1928. Pennsylvanian Ostracods of Oklahoma and Texas. Journal of Paleontology 2(2):132-141
Belongs to Cavellina according to D. A. Jung Echols and W. B. Creath 1959
See also Harlton 1928
Sister taxa: 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 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: Its type locality is Gunsight, Gunsight Limestone, Stephens, which is in a Virgilian carbonate limestone in the Gunsight Formation of Texas
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Gunsight, Gunsight Limestone, Stephens
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