Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Parent taxon: Cypraeidae according to L. T. Groves and R. L. Squires 2023
See also DeVries et al. 2006, Groves 2011, Squires 1987 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Afrozoila, Akleistostoma, Archicypraeinae, Bistolidinae, Cypraeinae, Cypraeorbis, Cypraeovulinae, Cyproglobininae, Erosariinae, Erroneinae, Eucypraea, Fossacypraea, Gisortiinae, Luriinae, Mandolina, Megalocypraea, Nariinae, Nesiocypraea, Notadusta, Ovulum, Proadusta, Pseudadusta, Pseudocypraeinae, Pseudozonariinae, Pustulariinae, Pustulariopsis, Semicypraea, Siphocypraea, Umbilia, Zoila, Zonariinae
Subtaxa: Afrocypraea Archicypraeini Barycypraea Bernaya Bernayini Gisortia Protocypraea
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Miocene of India (1 collection), Indonesia (10), Pakistan (6), the Philippines (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Myanmar (1)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (2), China (1), Colombia (2), Egypt (4), France (7), Italy (2), Libya (6), Mexico (2), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Pakistan (12), Panama (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (6), Somalia (1), United States (16: California, Florida, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1), Niger (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Germany (1), Greenland (2), Mali (2), Mexico (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Sweden (1), United States (3: California)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Czech Republic (2), Egypt (2), France (4), India (4), Italy (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), South Africa (1), United States (29: California, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of the Czech Republic (1), Italy (1)
Total: 155 collections including 187 occurrences