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Cavellina marmorea
Taxonomy
Cavellina marmorea was named by Kellett (1935). Its type specimen is USNM 90116 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 3 miles west of Sedan, which is in a Gzhelian marine shale in the Kanwaka Formation of Kansas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1935 | Cavellina marmorea Kellett p. 147 fig. 3 |
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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 marmorea Kellett 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| valve height | 2 | 0.730 | 0.710 | 0.750 | 0.730 | 0.028 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002 | |||||