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Cavellina ovoidiformis

Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae

Taxonomy
Cytherella ovoidiformis was named by Harlton (1928). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gunsight, Gunsight Limestone, Stephens, which is in a Virgilian carbonate limestone in the Gunsight Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Cavellina ovoidiformis by Jung Echols and Creath (1959).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Cytherella ovoidiformis Harlton p. 141 figs. pl. 21 f. 15a-b
1959Cavellina ovoidiformis Jung Echols and Creath p. 395

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPlatycopidaSars 1866
suborderPlatycopinaSars 1866
superfamilyCavellinoideaEgorov 1950
familyCavellinidaeEgorov 1950
genusCavellinaCoryell 1928
speciesovoidiformis()

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 ovoidiformis Harlton 1928
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Environment: hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Diet 2: suspension feedero
Vision: blindo
Created: 2010-02-05 01:56:31
Modified: 2011-06-14 02:59:51
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: Virgilian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Virgilian303.7 - 298.9USA (Texas) Cytherella ovoidiformis (type locality: 71503)