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Cavolinia

Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae

Taxonomy

Cavolinia was named by Avilgaard (1791) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l-u R Sepkoski's reference number: 2,83]. It is extant. Its type is Monoculus telemus.

It was assigned to Cavolinidae by Woodring (1928); to Cavoliniinae by Zorn (1997) and Beesley (1998); to Cavoliniidae by Todd (2001); and to Thecosomata by Sepkoski (2002).

Species

Cavolina pycna, Cavolina regulae, Cavolina telemus, Cavolina tuomeyi, C. aquensis, C. bituminata, C. grandis (syn. C. rattonei), C. gypsorum, C. marginata (syn. Hyala marginata, Cavolina limatula, C. vendryesiana), C. mexicana (syn. C. globulosa), C. tridentata, C. uncinata, C. ventricosa

Species lacking formal opinion data

C. regulae

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1791	Cavolinia Avilgaard pp. 174, 175
1928	Cavolinia Woodring p. 112
1997	Cavolinia Zorn p. 35
1998	Cavolinia Beesley p. 982
2001	Cavolinia Todd
2002	Cavolina Sepkoski

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa

Rank	Name	Author
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
order	Opisthobranchia	(Milne-Edwards 1848)
order	Thecosomata	Blainville 1823
family	Cavoliniidae	d'Orbigny 1842
genus	Cavolinia	Avilgaard 1791

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.

G. Cavolinia Avilgaard 1791

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†Cavolina pycna Jung 1971

†Cavolina regulae Jung 1971

Cavolina telemus Linnaeus 1758

Cavolina tuomeyi Holmes 1858

†Cavolinia aquensis Grateloup 1827

†Cavolinia bituminata Beets 1953

†Cavolinia grandis Bellardi 1873

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Invalid names: Cavolinia rattonei Simonelli 1896 [synonym]

†Cavolinia gypsorum Bellardi 1873

†Cavolinia marginata Bronn 1962

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Invalid names: Cavolina limatula Beets 1943 [synonym], Cavolinia vendryesiana Ujihara 1996 [synonym], Hyala marginata Bronn 1964 [synonym]

†Cavolinia mexicana Collins 1934

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Invalid names: Cavolinia globulosa Rang 1934 [synonym]

†Cavolinia tridentata Niebuhr 1775

Cavolinia uncinata dOrbigny 1835

†Cavolinia ventricosa Guppy 1882

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

nektonicf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 07:42:46

Modified:

2009-09-10 09:42:46

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 28.40000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (67 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene	28.4 - 23.03	Panama	C. xenica (42569 42571)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Grenada	C. pycna (58648 58649 58652) C. pycna, C. regulae (58643 58654) C. pycna, C. regulae, C. vendryesiana (58640) C. regulae (58642 58644 58656)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	France	C. zamboninii (74867)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	Trinidad and Tobago	C. audeninoi (93369)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	Panama (Colon)	Cavolina triaspis (145345)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	Dominican Republic	C. gibbosa (58817) C. gypsorum (131369 131512) C. gypsorum, C. mexicana (99852) C. mexicana (90618 131380 131381)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	Panama	C. ventricosa (93222)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Italy (Piedmont)	C. gypsorum (113998)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Panama (Colon)	C. sp. (79855)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Greece	C. gypsorum (76986)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Dominican Republic	C. gypsorum, C. mexicana (131374) C. mexicana (93732 131387)
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Greece (Rhodes)	C. gibbosa (122994)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Panama (Bocas del Toro)	C. sp. (79982)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Portugal	C. grandis, C. marginata (152328)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Dominican Republic	C. tridentata (93691 93715 181403)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Japan (Shizuoka)	C. tridentata (179928)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Indonesia (Sulawesi Tenggara)	C. vendryesiana, C. bituminata, C. mexicana (109175)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.588	Haiti	C. sp. (60896 66815)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.588	Jamaica	C. tridentata, C. vendryesiana, C. ventricosa (34539)
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.588	Costa Rica (Limon)	C. sp. (79843)
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.588	Jamaica	Cavolina ventricosa, Cavolina digitata, Cavolina telemus, C. vendryesiana (58522) C. tridentata (69092) C. tridentata, C. vendryesiana, C. ventricosa (69091) C. vendryesiana, C. ventricosa (69094)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.588	Panama (Bocas)	C. sp. (61336 61337 79772 79794 79988 79989 79999 135876 135885)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.588	Costa Rica (Limon)	C. sp. (79990)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.588	Dominican Republic	C. tridentata (93612)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.588	Panama (Bocas del Toro)	C. sp. (61339 61340 79998)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.588	Spain	C. floridana, C. landani, C. tridentata, C. vendryesiana (80559) C. floridana, C. landani, C. vendryesiana (80558) C. vendryesiana (80563)
Calabrian	1.8 - 0.774	Costa Rica (Limon)	C. sp. (79835 79842)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (California)	Cavolina trispinosa (160361) Cavolina trispinosa, Cavolina telemus (59063) C. uncinata (200653)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Japan	C. longirostris, C. inflexa, C. quadridentata, C. tridentata, C. globulosa (88886)