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Cavellina fittsi

Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae

Taxonomy
Cavellina fittsi was named by Kellett (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Brick plant cut in field, north of Gage Park, Topeka, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Howard Formation of Kansas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Cavellina fittsi Kellett p. 147 figs. Pl 18, figs 2a-3g

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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
speciesfittsi

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 fittsi Kellett 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available