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Cavellina chasensis
Taxonomy
Cavellina chasensis was named by Kellett (1935). Its type specimen is USNM 90136 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is District School, Cottonwood Falls, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate limestone in the Chase Formation of Kansas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1935 | Cavellina chasensis Kellett p. 148 figs. Pl 18, fig 5 |
| 1988 | Cavellina chasensis Melnyk and Maddocks p. 32 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Cavellina chasensis Kellett 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| carapace height | 1 | 0.270 |
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| References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004 | |||||