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Cavellina huqfensis

Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae

Taxonomy

Cavellina huqfensis was named by Crasquin-Soleau (1999). Its type specimen is MGL74698, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. altoides, C. cumingsi, C. devoniana, C. devonica, C. dushanensis, C. guizhouensis, C. plana, C. primaria, C. robinsoni, C. sculpturata, C. zhongpingensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1999	Cavellina huqfensis Crasquin-Soleau p. 170 figs. Pl 3, figs 13-17

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997

Rank	Name	Author
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Oligostraca	Zrzavý et al. 1997
class	Ostracoda
subclass	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Platycopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Platycopina	Sars 1866
superfamily	Cavellinoidea	Egorov 1950
family	Cavellinidae	Egorov 1950
genus	Cavellina	Coryell 1928
species	huqfensis

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 huqfensis Crasquin-Soleau 1999

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	4	0.593	0.530	0.650	0.600	0.052

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: Wordian or 266.90000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections (33 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Wordian	266.9 - 264.28	Oman	Cavellina huqfensis (49655 49656 49839 49842 49857 49859 49861 49864 49865 49866 49867 49868 49869 49906 49907 49908 49909 49910 49911 49912 49913 49914 49917 49918 49920 49921 49922 49923 49925 49926 49928 121891 121893)