Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) heilprinii Dall 1890 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Alternative combination: Cypraea heilprinii

Full reference: W. H. Dall. 1890. Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida. Scientific Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Philadelphia 3(1):1-200

Belongs to Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) according to J. R. Gardner 1947

See also Dolin 1991, Ingram 1939, Landau and Groves 2011, Petuch 2004 and Schilder 1927

Sister taxa: Cypraeorbis (Cypraeorbis), Cypraeorbis alabamensis, Cypraeorbis arlettae, Cypraeorbis boggsi, Cypraeorbis bulbus, Cypraeorbis exsplendens, Cypraeorbis gaasensis, Cypraeorbis kendrewi, Cypraeorbis lineata, Cypraeorbis noveli, Cypraeorbis nuculoides, Cypraeorbis perplexa, Cypraeorbis sphaeroides, Cypraeorbis splendens, Cypraeorbis vaughani, Cypraeorbis ventripotens, Cypraeorbis vesicularis, Cypraeorbis willcoxi, Loxacypraea plumbea, Loxacypraea orbignyana, Loxacypraea apalachicolae, Loxacypraea chilona, Loxacypraea emilyae, Loxacypraea colligens, Loxacypraea genei

Type specimen: USNM 114103, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 2115 - Ten Mile Creek on Chipola River, 1 mile west of Baileys Ferry, which is in a Burdigalian marine marl/sandstone in the Chipola Formation of Florida.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at USGS Loc. 2212 - Tenmile Creek [Chipola Fm]

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