Cavellina

Searched as Cavellina (Cavellina) jolliffana. The Paleobiology Database treats Cavellina as the accepted name.

Cavellina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavellinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Platycopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 318.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323.9 Mya318.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Cavellina on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Barnett — 31.04°N, 98.25°W

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The named rock units Cavellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cavellina and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cavellina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,799 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 276 sites for Cavellina, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cavellina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Cavellina was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCavellinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell 1928